Workshops

Fall 2020

Concentration of Measure Phenomena

Oct 19, 2020 to Oct 23, 2020

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This workshop is being live streamed on our website. Full participation (including the capacity to ask questions) will be available via Zoom webinar.

All talk times are in Pacific Time.

Monday, October 19th, 2020
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:55 am		Tail and Moment Bounds for Gaussian Chaoses in Banach Spaces Rafal Latala, University of Warsaw
9:55 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:55 am		Aspects of Coulomb Gases Djalil Chafai, Université Paris-Dauphine - PSL
10:55 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:25 pm		Projections of Probability Distributions: A Measure-Theoretic Dvoretzky Theorem Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
12:25 pm–2:00 pm		Break
2:00 pm–2:55 pm		From Gaussian Measure to Partial Colorings and Linear Size Sparsifiers Thomas Rothvoss, University of Washington
2:55 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–3:55 pm		A Probabilistic Mechanism for Quark Confinement Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
8:55 am–9:00 am		Introductions
9:00 am–9:55 am		Sharp Isoperimetric Inequalities for Affine Quermassintegrals Emanuel Milman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
9:55 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:55 am		Poincaré Inequalities and Convergence to Equilibrium with Variable Curvature Bounds Max Fathi, Institut de Mathematiques de Toulouse
10:55 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:25 pm		On Some Brunn-Minkowski Inequalities for Probability Measures Under Symmetry Galyna Livshyts, Georgia Institute of Technology
12:25 pm–2:00 pm		Break
2:00 pm–2:55 pm		An Improved Lower Bound for Sparse Reconstruction from Subsampled Hadamard Matrices Shravas Rao, Northwestern University
2:55 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–3:55 pm		Recent Advances in Algorithmic Heavy-Tailed Statistics Sam Hopkins, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
8:55 am–9:00 am		Introductions
9:00 am–9:55 am		Random Concave Functions on an Equilateral Lattice with Periodic Hessians Hari Narayanan; Tata Institute, Mumbai
9:55 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:55 am		Reducing Isotropy to KLS, A Faster Sampling Algorithm Yin Tat Lee, University of Washington
10:55 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:25 pm		Gaussian Regularization of the Pseudospectrum and Numerical Linear Algebra Nikhil Srivastava, UC Berkeley
12:25 pm–2:00 pm		Break
2:00 pm–2:55 pm		Sharp Thresholds for Random Subspaces, and Applications Mary Wootters, Stanford University

Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
8:55 am–9:00 am		Introductions
9:00 am–9:55 am		Moments of the Distance Between Independent Random Vectors Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, University of Warsaw
9:55 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:55 am		The Langevin Algorithm in the Non Smooth Log-Concave Case Joseph Lehec, Université Paris-Dauphine
10:55 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:25 pm		Rates of Normal Approximation for Typical Weighted Sums Sergey Bobkov, University of Minnesota
12:25 pm–2:00 pm		Break
2:00 pm–2:55 pm		Sharp Poincare and log-Sobolev Inequalities for the Switch Chain on Regular Bipartite Graphs Konstantin Tikhomirov, Georgia Tech
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Reception via GatherTown

Friday, October 23rd, 2020
8:55 am–9:00 am		Introductions
9:00 am–9:55 am		Log Concavity and Concentration of Measure on the Discrete Hypercube Ronen Eldan, Weizmann Institute of Science
9:55 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:55 am		The (Non-)Concentration of the Chromatic Number Annika Heckel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
10:55 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:25 pm		Graph Matching in Correlated Random Graphs via Small Subgraph Statistics Tselil Schramm, Stanford University
12:25 pm–2:00 pm		Break
2:00 pm–2:55 pm		Lower Estimates of Marginal Density Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan