Fall 2026
October 14, 2026, 4:00–5:00pm, EH4088
Speaker: Achintya Polavarapu (Georgia Tech)
Title: Exponential Rank Bounds for Random Matrices
Abstract: A basic question in random matrix theory is how likely a matrix is to have a large rank. For many classical models, this probability decays extremely quickly, but the strongest results often rely on the entries being identically distributed. In this talk, I will discuss how to obtain the same exponential scale for matrices with fully independent, non-identically distributed entries under only a uniform anti-concentration assumption and explain the main ideas that make this possible.
October 21, 2026, 4:00–5:00pm, EH4088
Speaker: Chun-Kai Tseng (MSU)
Title: Small Moments of the Sensitivity of Polynomial Threshold Functions
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October 28, 2026, 4:00–5:00pm, EH4088
Speaker: Haoyu Liu (PKU/MIT)
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November 4, 2026, 4:00–5:00pm, EH4088
Speaker: Brayden Letwin (UWashington)
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November 18, 2026, 4:00–5:00pm, EH4088
Speaker: Han Huang (MIT)
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