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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/tutte-colloq
 uium-vijay-bhattiprolu
SUMMARY:Tutte Colloquium - Vijay Bhattiprolu
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DESCRIPTION:TITILE: Global geometric reductions for some bottleneck questi
 ons in\nhardness of approximation\n\nSpeaker:\n Vijay Bhattiprolu\n\nAffil
 iation:\n University of Waterloo\n\nLocation:\n MC 5501 or contact Eva Lee
  for Zoom link\n\nABSTRACT: I will describe the classical \"local gadget
  reduction\"\nparadigm for proving hardness of approximation results and t
 hen list\nsome important optimization problems that resist all such attac
 ks.\nWith a focus on problems that can be cast as quadratic maximization\n
 over convex sets\, I will describe some successes in bypassing the\naforem
 entioned bottleneck using ideas from geometry. Time permitting I\nwill als
 o describe some compelling new frontiers where answering some\nquestions i
 n convex geometry could be the path forward.
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