Speaker: Rediet Abebe Affiliation: Cornell University Title: Using Search Queries to Understand Health Information Needs in Africa Abstract: Access to healthcare and health information is of major global concern. The stark inequality in the availability[...]

Speaker: Grigory Yaroslavtsev Affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington Title: Advances in Hierarchical Clustering for Vector Data Abstract: Compared to the highly successful flat clustering (e.g. k-means), despite its important role and applications in data analysis, hierarchical[...]

Speaker: Arka Rai Choudhury Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University Title: Finding a Nash Equilibrium is No Easier than Breaking Fiat-Shamir Abstract: The Fiat-Shamir heuristic transforms a public-coin interactive proof into a non-interactive argument, by replacing the verifier[...]