Speaker: Justin Thaler Affiliation: Georgetown University Title: Approximate Degree, Sign-Rank, and the Method of Dual Polynomials Abstract: The eps-approximate degree of a Boolean function is the minimum degree of a real polynomial that point-wise approximates f to[...]

Speaker: Jalaj Upadhyay Affiliation: Penn State University Title: Fast and Space-Optimal Differentially-Private Low-Rank Factorization in the General Turnstile Update Model Abstract: The problem of {\em low-rank factorization} of an mxn matrix A requires outputting a singular[...]