This Week's Stories
1. BruinTech 2023 Spring Conference Call for Community Speakers
Calling all BruinTech folk! BruinTech invites you to be a part of the BruinTech 2023 Spring Conference! We are excited to offer community members an opportunity to showcase their expertise and passion for IT or UCLA-related topics. Each presenter will have 20-30 minutes to present on the topic of their choice.
Wednesday, May 24
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (20-30 minute intervals)
Virtual Zoom conference
Other speakers for the conference will cover a broad range of topics, such as change management, design systems, and social media. The conference planning committee will select community speakers from respondents. If you would like a chance to share your interests with a wider audience, please fill out this form. The deadline to apply is 5:00 PM on May 8. For questions, please reach out to bruintech@ucla.edu.
2. Mark your calendars for BruinTech Spring Conference 2023!
- Tuesday, May 23 (Virtual): 10:30am - 12pm and 1-2:15pm
- Wednesday, May 24 (Virtual): 11am - 12pm and 1-2:15pm
- Thursday, May 25 (In-person): 1pm - 4pm
Tuesday and Wednesday (May 23-24), will be held virtually, while Thursday (May 25), will be in-person.
Join us along with UCLA's IT Strategic Partners on May 25 for presentations, mingling, food and drinks -- the non-alcoholic kind! We're including a professional headshot photo! Keep an eye out for our official agenda announcement.
3. UCLA Library Workshops
Docker Software Platform: Practice, Thursday, May 4, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. via Zoom
Python for High Performance Data Analytics (2) Arrays, Friday, May 5, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. via Zoom
Introduction to Meta-analysis in Stata, Monday, May 8, 1 to 4 p.m. via Zoom
Data Loofah: Help Identify Errors in Your Data, Tuesday, May 9, 12 to 1 p.m.
Building Programs from Source Code, Thursday, May 11, 2 to 4 p.m.
Data Visualization with Python I: Plotting Fundamentals, Friday, May 12, 9 to 11 a.m. via Zoom
R Graphics: Introduction to ggplot2, Monday, May 15, 1 to 4 p.m. via Zoom
Data Visualization with Python II: Making Interactive Plots and Dashboards, Friday, May 19, 9 to 11 a.m. via Zoom
4. CS 201 | Strong Bounds for 3-Progression, RAGHU MEKA, UCLA – Computer Science Department
May 02, 2023: 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Location: 3400 Boelter Hall, 420 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles California 9009
Speaker: Raghu Meka
Affiliation: UCLA - Computer Science Department
Raghu Meka is a professor in Computer Science and is broadly interested in complexity theory, learning theory, algorithm design. More generally, I like probability and combinatorics-related things.
ABSTRACT:
Suppose you have a set S of integers from {1,2,…,N} that contains at least N / C elements. Then for large enough N, must S contain three equally spaced numbers (i.e., a 3-term arithmetic progression)?
In 1953, Roth showed this is the case when C is roughly (log log N). Behrend in 1946 showed that C can be at most exp(sqrt(log N)). Since then, the problem has been a cornerstone of the area of additive combinatorics. Following a series of remarkable results, a celebrated paper from 2020 due to Bloom and Sisask improved the lower bound on C to C = (log N)^(1+c) for some constant c > 0.
This talk will describe a new work showing that C can be as big as exp((log N)^0.09), thus getting closer to Behrend’s construction.
Based on joint work with Zander Kelley
5. Participate in the ACM’s workshop
ACM ICPC’s track to teach advanced topics and introduce beginners and experienced programmers to competitive programming.
Apr 30, 2023: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Engineering VI – Room 289
404 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles California 90095
