22nd Max-Planck Summer School
Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science
ADFOCS 2021
July 26 - August 13, 2021
virtual event (hosted from Saarbrücken, Germany)
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conference/adfocs
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ABOUT ADFOCS
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ADFOCS is an international summer school organized annually by the Max
Planck Institute for Informatics. The goal of this year's ADFOCS is that
people with traditional background in theoretical computer science learn
the continuous optimization techniques which have become indispensable
tools for modern graph algorithms, linear programming solvers, and
numerous other applications. The title is:
*** Convex Optimization and Graph Algorithms ***
Unlike previous ADFOCS, this year the event will take place over the
span of three weeks. There will be a talk every day from 16:00-18:00
CEST from July 26 to August 13. We will start with a primer week to
learn the very basics of continuous optimization (July 26 - July 30),
followed by two weeks of talks by the speakers on more advanced
continuous optimization and its use in graph algorithms (August 2 - 13).
The event will take place entirely online.
PROGRAM
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Our invited speakers give three 90-minute lectures with subsequent
exercise and discussion sessions. The lecturers are (in alphabetical
order):
* Alina Ene, Boston University, USA: Adaptive gradient descent
* Rasmus Kyng, ETH Zurich, Switzerland: Graphs, sampling, and iterative
methods
* Aaron Sidford, Stanford University, USA: Optimization Methods for
Maximum Flow
REGISTRATION
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Registration on the homepage of ADFOCS is now open. There is no
registration fee. However, if you want to participate in the exercise
sessions, then you will need to provide either a recommendation letter
from your advisor or a motivation letter. If you choose to do this,
please mark the check-box in the registration link. We will contact you
to provide the letter at a suitable time.
CONTACT
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The homepage of ADFOCS, providing forms for registration and a more
detailed program, can be found at
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/conference/adfocs
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
ADFOCS team by sending an email to adfocs at mpi-inf.mpg.de
Organizers: Karl Bringmann, Alejandro Cassis, Cosmina Croitoru, Themis
Gouleakis, Andreas Karrenbauer, Kurt Mehlhorn, and Vasileios Nakos
--
"Nur wer erwachsen wird, und Kind bleibt, ist ein Mensch!" :) (Erich
Kaestner)
Cosmina Croitoru
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