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Application deadline: November 15th 2019 </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Nov.聽2019</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> mini-course in workshop on <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="https://perso.math.univ-toulouse.fr/statistics-geometry-and-topology/accueil/computational-aspects-of-geometry/"><em>Computational Aspects of Geometry</em></a> as part of <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="https://perso.math.univ-toulouse.fr/statistics-geometry-and-topology/"><em>Statistics with Geometry and Topology</em></a> trimister at <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr">IMT Toulouse</a> </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Sep.聽2019</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) workshop <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://claymath.org/events/beyond-spectral-gaps"><em>Beyond Spectral Gaps</em></a>, University of Oxford </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Jan.聽2019</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> focus lecture at <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://www.iasi.cnr.it/aussois/web/home/program/year/2019">23rd Combinatorial Optimization Workshop</a>, Aussois </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Aug.聽2018</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> invited lecture at <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://www.icm2018.org/">International Congress for Mathematicians 2018</a> </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Jan.聽2018</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/2018/Raghavendra-Steurer.html">Michael and Sheila Held prize</a> </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Jan.聽2017</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~slovett/workshops/sum-of-squares-2017/">winter school on sum-of-squares</a>, UC San Diego, see <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~slovett/workshops/sum-of-squares-2017/schedule.html"><strong>slides</strong></a> </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Sep.聽2016</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://sos16.dsteurer.org">seminar on sum-of-squares</a> at Princeton University with <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://sumofsquares.org"><strong>lecture notes</strong></a> </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">May 2016</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="https://theory.eecs.northwestern.edu/events/sum-of-squares/">Quarterly Theory Workshop: Semidefinite Programming Hierarchies and Sum of Squares</a>, Northwestern University. </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Jan.聽2015</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://www.as.huji.ac.il/schools/math18">18th Midrasha Mathematicae: In and Around Combinatorics</a>, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem. </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Dec.聽2014</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~martinjs/mtd-2014/mtd.html">Midwest Theory Day</a>, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Sep.聽2014</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> workshop on <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/spectral2014-1" title="September 22--26, 2014: workshop on graph partitioning, semidefinite programming hierarchies and the Unique Games Conjecture, at the Simons Institute in Berkeley.">semidefinite optimization, approximation and applications,</a> Simons Institute, Berkeley. </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Sep.聽2014</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> lectures on extended formulations and the sum-of-squares method at <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://www.iasi.cnr.it/~ventura/Cargese14/Overview.html" title="Fifth Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Carg猫se, Corsica (France). September 8th - 13th, 2014.">Fifth Carg猫se Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization,</a> Corsica, France. </dd> <dt class="db w-20 f6 mb1 mid-gray">Feb.聽2014</dt> <dd class="ma0 db w-80 mb1"> workshop on <a class="blue hover-dark-blue link underline" href="http://icerm.brown.edu/sp-s14-w1" title="February 10--14, 2014: workshop on semidefinite programming and graph algorithms at ICERM in Providence.">semidefinite programming and graph algorithms,</a> ICERM, Providence. </dd> </dl> </article></main><footer><hr class="mv4 bb b--black-10"/><ul class="list db flex justify-center pl0 ma0 lh-copy sans-serif mv4 f5"><li class="dib mr2"><a href="/" class="link underline hover-dark-blue blue">home</a></li><li class="dib mr2"><a href="/papers/" class="link underline hover-dark-blue blue">papers</a></li><li class="dib mr2"><a href="/talks/" class="link underline hover-dark-blue blue">talks</a></li><li class="dib mr2"><a href="/cv/" class="link underline hover-dark-blue blue">c.v.</a></li><li class="dib mr2"><a href="/courses/" class="link underline hover-dark-blue blue">courses</a></li><li class="dib mr2"><a href="/contact/" class="link underline hover-dark-blue blue">contact</a></li><li class="dib mr2"><a href="/events/" class="link underline hover-dark-blue blue">events</a></li></ul></footer></div></body></html>