Europe has a long history of family separation, which includes both violent immigration control and advocacy against these discriminatory practices. In this panel, scholars who have researched…
In AY 2017-2018, the Institute for European Studies launched the IES Migrations Series which conceptualizes the migration of not only people, but also images, words, ideas, technologies, objects,…
Many problems in data analytics can be formulated as estimating a low-rank matrix from
noisy data. This task is particularly challenging in the face of uncanonical data corruption
and growing size…
In this talk, we study two different diffusion models on the random graphs. In the first part, we
consider first passage percolation. We analyze the impact of the edge weights on distances
in…
Continuous optimization is a key component of modern data analysis. Recently, the demands
of extremely large-scale applications have shifted the focus from high cost, high accuracy
methods to low…
We discuss optimization problems at Amazon Logistics. Amazon is the biggest on-line retailer, fulfilling millions of orders a day. This leads to many classical OR problems. In addition, many of these…