What is SNRG?
SNRG is a reading group that holds weekly meetings to discuss interesting papers and problems, generally related to social networks. Feel free to attend meetings and participate in discussions. All ideas about problems, papers, talks, etc. are welcome. Meetings usually start with stating an interesting problem without getting into possible solutions, and then following up possible approaches to previously stated problems. An informal talk by a volunteer follows, and attendants discuss about the paper(s) as the speaker proceeds. Finally, possible applications of and extensions to the approach are discussed.
When, where, and how?
Currently, in the first Winter term of 2017/2018, meetings are held on Friday 11:00-12:30 pm in ICICS X530 .
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SNRG talks
List of previous and upcoming talks:
| Date | Speaker | Title or Paper Name |
| Oct 6 | Glenn | Basic Concentration Inequalities |
| Oct 13 | Prithu | Applications of Concentration Bounds |
| Oct 20 | Prithu | Youze Tang, Xiaokui Xiao, Yanchen Shi. Influence Maximization: Near-Optimal Time Complexity Meets Practical Efficiency. In SIGMOD 2014. |
| Oct 27 | - | - |
| Nov 3 | Ezequiel | Martingales |
| Nov 10 | Glenn | Martingale Stopping Time |
| Nov 17 | Alex | The PAC Learning Framework |
| Nov 24 | Sharan | VC dimension, Rademacher complexity, and a few examples. |