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<font face="HelveticaNeue">This is Xiaodan Zhou from Analysis on metric spaces unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. </font><br>
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<font face="HelveticaNeue">We would like to invite you to join virtually the following mini-course “</font><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); letter-spacing: 1.1px;"><b>Metric Embeddings - What, How
and Why</b>?</span><font face="HelveticaNeue">" hosted at OIST. The speaker is </font><b style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Professor Sylvester Eriksson-Bique</b><font face="HelveticaNeue"> from University of Jyväskylä. The mini-course is accessible to senior
undergraduate students, graduate students and anyone beyond the leve</font>l</font><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font>. </font><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); letter-spacing: 1.1px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Each
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<font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Lecture 1</font></td>
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<font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Lecture 2</font></td>
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<font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Feb 26, </font><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14px;">Monday</span></td>
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<strong style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); letter-spacing: 1.1px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">There is also an introductory talk to this lecture</font></span></strong><strong style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); letter-spacing: 1.1px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">: </font></strong><a href="https://groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/tsvp-talk-34" style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); letter-spacing: 1.1px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", "IPA Pゴシック", IPAPGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Embeddings
as a Problem Solving Technique</b></span></a><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); letter-spacing: 1.1px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro", "ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", "ＭＳ Ｐゴシック", "MS PGothic", "IPA Pゴシック", IPAPGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> </b></span><font color="#444444" face="HelveticaNeue"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 1.1px;">on
Feb 20th 15:00-16:00. You need to obtain a different zoom link for this talk from the event page</span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); letter-spacing: 1.1px; font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14px;">. </span></h3>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Definitions: Finite metric spaces and graph metrics, l_p metrics, doubling metric spaces, trees, Fréchet embeddings</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Kuratowski Embedding</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Bourgain Embedding Theorem</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Assouad Embedding theorem</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Cut-Cone decomposition and isometric embedding of l_2 into L^1</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Goemans-Linial semidefinite relaxation for the Sparsest Cut Problem</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Non-embedding theorems, including Laakso diamond graph</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Embedding simple graphs, e.g. trees. – depending on time.</font></li></ul>
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<div><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">More information of the mini-course can be found here:<br>
<a href="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">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</a></font></div>
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<font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 14px;">Please feel free to forward the information to anyone who may be interested. We look forward to seeing you in the mini-course.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Xiaodan Zhou<br>
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Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit<br>
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University<br>
Okinawa 904-0495, Japan<br>
<a href="mailto:xiaodan.zhou@oist.jp">xiaodan.zhou@oist.jp</a><br>
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