[theory students] Fw: Summer school '22 at UCSB on Spectral Independence

[JIN-YI CAI <jyc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To interested students, fyi.

Jin-Yi

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From: ericvigoda@xxxxxxxxx <ericvigoda@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:18 PM
To: JIN-YI CAI <jyc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Summer school '22 at UCSB on Spectral Independence

 

Hi Jin-Yi,

Could you forward the following?

We are organizing a summer school in August '22 on some exciting

new tools developed very recently for the study of MCMC algorithms, see:

   https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigoda/School/

The focus is on the new technique known as spectral independence

and related notions from high-dimensional expanders and how these

tools can be used to analyze entropy decay.  We will highlight recent

breakthrough results of generating random bases of a matroid as well

as exploring the spectral independence approach: how

spectral independence implies optimal mixing time bounds

and approaches for establishing spectral independence.  

The summer school will be held at the UC Santa Barbara campus.

Lodging will be provided for graduate students at the on-campus

dorms, right next to the ocean.  Faculty and postdocs are also welcome

to attend.  Anyone (potentially) interested in attending should fill out the 

online form at the bottom of the above link to receive further updates.

Thanks, Eric