[geometry-ml:05565] OIST mini course "Metric Embeddings - What, How and Why?" by Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä)

[Xiaodan Zhou]

Dear all,

This is Xiaodan Zhou from Analysis on metric spaces unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University.

We would like to invite you to join virtually the following mini-course “Metric Embeddings - What, How and Why?" hosted at OIST. The speaker is Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique from University of Jyväskylä. The mini-course is accessible to senior undergraduate students, graduate students and anyone beyond the level. Each lecture is 45 mins+15 mins break+45 mins+15 mins discussion.


Time:

Lecture 1       Feb 21, Wednesday       10:00-12:00, JST
Lecture 2       Feb 26, Monday  14:00-16:00, JST
Lecture 3       Feb 28, Wednesday       14:00-16:00, JST
Lecture 4       Mar 1, Friday   10:00-12:00, JST
There is also an introductory talk to this lecture: Embeddings as a Problem Solving Technique<https://groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/tsvp-talk-34> on Feb 20th 15:00-16:00. You need to obtain a different zoom link for this talk from the event page.
Syllabus:

  *   Definitions: Finite metric spaces and graph metrics, l_p metrics, doubling metric spaces, trees, Fréchet embeddings
  *   Kuratowski Embedding
  *   Bourgain Embedding Theorem
  *   Assouad Embedding theorem
  *   Cut-Cone decomposition and isometric embedding of l_2 into L^1
  *   Goemans-Linial semidefinite relaxation for the Sparsest Cut Problem
  *   Non-embedding theorems, including Laakso diamond graph
  *   Embedding simple graphs, e.g. trees. – depending on time.

You can obtain a zoom link for the mini-course through the following registration page:
https://oist.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwldOyoqjorHd3zNUPqJK4WiEsxcdSKyLeS#/registration

More information of the mini-course can be found here:
https://groups.oist.jp/aoms/event/%E3%80%90mini-course%E3%80%91-metric-embeddings-what-how-and-why%E3%80%80%E3%80%80%E3%80%91speaker-professor-sylvester-eriksson

Please feel free to forward the information to anyone who may be interested. We look forward to seeing you in the mini-course.

Best regards,
Xiaodan Zhou
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Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
xiaodan.zhou ＠ oist.jp<mailto:xiaodan.zhou ＠ oist.jp>

https://groups.oist.jp/aoms

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