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"Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time II” Seminar Lecture by László Babai on November 24, 2015

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2015 124:53


This is the second in a series of lectures in the seminar “Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science: The Design Lemma” at the University of Chicago, given by László Babai, the George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Chicago. The lecture took place on November 24, 2015.

"Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time I" Seminar Lecture

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2015 100:11


This is the first in a series of lectures in the seminar “Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science: The Local Certificates Algorithm” at the University of Chicago, given by László Babai, the George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Chicago. The lecture took place on November 10, 2015.

Research Computing: Transforming Science and Scholarship

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2012 80:34


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On a November 8, 2012, panel, UChicago scientists and scholars and IBM experts discuss how high performance computing is transforming academic research. Learn more about join speaker series at nationallabs.uchicago.edu/page/speaker-series

Steve Smale on Topology and the Geometry of Manifolds from Sampling

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 50:25


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Topology and the Geometry of Manifolds from Sampling". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Misha Belkin on Graph Laplacian on Singular Manifolds

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 28:28


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Toward Understanding Complex Data: Graph Laplacian on Singular Manifolds". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Hariharan Narayanan on Testing the Manifold Hypothesis

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 35:38


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Testing the Manifold Hypothesis". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: Closing Remarks

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 2:40


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Alexey Koloydenko on a Risk-based View of Path Inference in HMMs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 39:01


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "A Risk-based View of the Conventional and New Types of Path Inference in HMMs". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Jun Zhang on Laplacian Eigenfunctions Learn Population Structure

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 35:08


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Laplacian Eigenfunctions Learn Population Structure". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Morgan Sonderegger on Combining Data and Dynamical Systems Models of Language Change

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 35:14


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Combining Data and Dynamical Systems Models of Language Change". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Vikas Sindhwani on Manifold Regularization

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 38:39


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Learning Vector-valued Functions and Data-dependent Kernels for Manifold Regularization". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Gunnar Carlsson on the Shape of Data

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 54:26


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "The Shape of Data". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Shmuel Weinberger on Unsupervised Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 33:08


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "A Topological View of Unsupervised Learning". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Karen Livescu on Articulatory Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 25:35


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Articulatory Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Aren Jansen on Temporal Sparsity for Robust and Efficient ASR

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 53:49


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Not All Frames Are Created Equal: Temporal Sparsity for Robust and Efficient ASR". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Partha Mitra on the Mouse Brain Architecture Project

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 17:30


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Mouse Brain Architecture Project". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: Memorial Comments

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 22:36


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. his conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Yali Amit on Biologically Plausible Neural Networks for Invariant Visual Recognition

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 32:00


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Biologically Plausible Neural Networks for Invariant Visual Recognition". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Pedro Felzenszwalb on Object Detection Grammars

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 37:25


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Object Detection Grammars". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Tommy Poggio on the Computational Magic of the Ventral Stream

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 62:02


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "The Computational Magic of the Ventral Stream: From Visual Development to Group Theory, Hebbian Learning, and Wavelets". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Vladimir Koltchinskii on Low Rank Matrix Estimation

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 33:34


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Low Rank Matrix Estimation". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Sanjoy Dasgupta on Notions of Dimension and Their Use in Analyzing Non-parametric Regression

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 30:28


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Notions of Dimension and Their Use in Analyzing Non-parametric Regression". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Bin Yu on Spectral Clustering and High-Dim Stochastic Block Model for Undirected and Directed Graphs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 34:39


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Spectral Clustering and High-Dimensional Stochastic Block Model for Undirected and Directed Graphs". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Amit Singer on Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 31:10


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Rob Schapire on Multiclass Boosting

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 46:44


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "A Theory of Multiclass Boosting". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Natalia Komarova on Mathematical Modeling of Color Categorization

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 30:24


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Mathematical Modeling of Color Categorization in Humans". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

D. Kimbrough Oller on Automated Monitoring of Vocal Development

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 31:59


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Automated Monitoring of Vocal Development: The Potential for Screening and Diagnosis of Childhood Handicaps". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Natalia Komarova on Language Evolution

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2012 51:00


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Overview on Language Evolution". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.

Clouds and Science: Opportunities and Obstacles

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2010 55:27


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A Colloquium in the Department of Computer Science

Todd Nugent CSPP Lecture

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2010 78:15


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Todd Nugent delivers a lecture as part of the CSPP Lecture Series hosted by the Computer Science Department

Direct-Product Decoding and Testing, and 2-query PCPs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2010 68:35


Valentine Kabanets delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.

Matching Vector Codes

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2010 59:34


Sergey Yekhanin delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.

Supervised Learning of Similarity

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2010 66:41


Greg Shakhnarovich delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.

Algorithms

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2010 75:57


Professor László Babai delivers a lecture for his class in the Computer Science department.

Algebraic Complexity with Less Relations

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2010 54:49


Amir Yehudayoff delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.

Mathematical Aspects of the Geometric Complexity Theory Approach to P Versus NP

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2010 59:51


Joseph Landsberg delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.

Hardness Amplification in Proof Complexity

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2010 59:49


Paul Beame delivers a lecture as part of the University of Chicago Theory Seminars hosted by the Computer Science Department.

Biological Microsystems

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2009 6:37


Milan Mrksich, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, discusses his research on integrating living cells with non-living engineered microsystems to create hybrid devices. (c) 2006 The University of Chicago

Designing Intelligence: Language Acquisition as a Model for Teaching Computers to Learn

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2009 6:08


By researching how children learn language, computer science professor Partha Niyogi seeks to unlock the secret to programming truly 'intelligent' machines. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

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