LIDS & Stats Tea

Tea talks are 20 minute long informal chalk-talks for the purpose of sharing ideas and making others aware about some of the topics that may be of interest to the LIDS and Stats audience. If you are interested in presenting in the upcoming seminars, please email lids_stats_tea[at]mit[dot]edu. 

September 21, 2017

Semidefinite Programming For Chance Constrained Optimization Over Semialgebraic Sets

Ashkan Jasour (CSAIL)

This talk addresses the  “chance constrained problems”, optimization problems with probabilistic constraints, and also "chance optimization" where one aims at maximizing the probability of a set defined by polynomial inequalities. These problems are...

September 28, 2017

Chengtao Li

Chengtao Li (CSAIL)

October 5, 2017

Rajat Talak

Rajat Talak (LIDS)

October 6, 2017

Job Searching (or some other similar sounding title)

Luca Carlone (LIDS & AeroAstro)

October 12, 2017

Cristian Ioan Vasile

Cristian Ioan Vasile (LIDS)

October 19, 2017

Tarik Roukny

Tarik Roukny (Media Lab)

October 26, 2017

Pritish Kamath's Cool Talk

Pritish Kamath (CSAIL)

November 2, 2017

Janelle Schlossberger

Janelle Schlossberger (Harvard Economics)

November 9, 2017

Tal Wagner

Tal Wagner (CSAIL)

November 16, 2017

Omer Tanovic's Cool Research

Omer Tanovic (LIDS)

November 30, 2017

Yuhao Wang

Yuhao Wang (LIDS)

December 7, 2017

Ulas Ayaz

Ulas Ayaz (LIDS)