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• Apr

  16

  Theory Seminar - Shreya Mogulothu "Exact min-cut in semi-streaming model"

  Department of Computer Science

  2:00 PM

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  Abstract
  

  We give a 2-pass semi-streaming algorithm to find the exact global minimum cut of an unweighted, undirected graph. This result is adapted from a paper by Aviad Rubinstein, Tselil Schramm, and S. Matthew Weinberg called Computing Exact Minimum Cuts Without Knowing the Graph (ITCS 2018).

  Biography
  
  Shreya Mogulothu is a junior at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North. She has been a participant in the Program in Algorithmic and Combinatorial Thinking (PACT) since the summer of 2019. She loves working on problems, especially collaboratively. In her free time, she writes problems with her friends and blogs about things she finds curious.

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  TIME Friday, April 16, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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  CONTACT Pamela Villalovoz    pmv@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Computer Science

• May

  20

  Julio M. Ottino: Prediction, Understanding, and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: A View Through the Window of Mixing

  McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

  12:00 PM

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  Title: Prediction, Understanding, and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: A View Through the Window of Mixing

  Speaker: Julio M. Ottino, PhD, Northwestern University

  Special Note: This colloquium will be held at https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97114185619. The passcode is 559440.

  Abstract:

  Much has happened since Eugene Wigner’s thought provoking 1959’s Courant Lecture “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” (subsequently published in Comm. Pure and Appl. Math.). Each of us can reflect, from our various vantage points, on the role that mathematics, both pure and applied, plays in our chosen areas of research. Historical context helps – I will start when progress was equated with precision and build a story connected with Niels Bohr, Henri Poincaré, and others. I will offer my views on the role it has played in my own work on mixing of fluids and granular matter – from continuum models, experiments, and computations to the relatively new mathematics of Piecewise Isometries – and use this to open a discussion into the changing role of mathematics in prediction and understanding in physical sciences.

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  TIME Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  CONTACT Madeline Kennedy    madeline.kennedy@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

• May

  31

  Memorial Day (no classes)

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  Memorial Day (no classes)

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  TIME Monday, May 31, 2021

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  CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  7

  Spring examinations begin

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  Spring examinations begin

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  TIME Monday, June 7, 2021

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  CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  12

  Spring examinations end

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  Spring examinations end

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  TIME Saturday, June 12, 2021

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  CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  13

  McCormick School of Engineering Convocation (Tentative)

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  1:00 PM Ryan Field

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  This ceremony will honor all 2021 McCormick undergraduate, master’s, and PhD graduates.

  The ceremony will be ticketed, and further information regarding the maximum number of tickets available will be released soon.

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  TIME Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  LOCATION Ryan Field    map it

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  CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events    northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

• Jun

  14

  Commencement (Tentative)

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  Commencement (Tentative)

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  TIME Monday, June 14, 2021

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• Jun

  18

  Spring Degrees Conferred

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  Spring Degrees Conferred

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  TIME Friday, June 18, 2021

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