# Colloquium

**Source**: https://arc.gatech.edu/colloquium/
**Parent**: https://arc.gatech.edu/

The ARC Colloquium features speakers from around the world and meets Mondays 11:00 am – 12:00 pm in Klaus 1116. We have a lunch and informal discussion with the speaker following the talk.

**Spring 2026 Schedule**

January 12 [**Konstantinos Stavropoulos**](https://www.kstavrop.com) (UT Austin)

January 19 *MLK Day – no talk*

January 26 **[Vaidehi Srinivas](https://vaidehi8913.github.io)** (Northwestern)

February 2 **[Byron Chin](https://math.mit.edu/~byronc/)** (MIT)

February 9 **[Andrei Graur](https://sites.google.com/view/agraur/home?authuser=1)** (Stanford)

February 16 **[Lisheng Ren](https://lishengren6.github.io)** (Wisconsin)

February 23 [**Shyamal Patel**](https://sites.google.com/view/shyamal-patel/home) (Columbia)

March 2 **[Stefan Boettcher](https://faculty.college.emory.edu/sites/boettcher/)** (Emory)

March 9

March 16

March 23 *Spring break – no talk*

March 30 **[Roie Levin](https://roielevin.com)** (Rutgers)

April 6

April 13

April 20

**Fall 2025 Schedule**

August 25 **ARC-ACO fellowship presentations**

September 1 *Labor Day – no talk*

September 8 **[Aravindan Vijayaraghavan](https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~aravindv/)** (Northwestern)

September 15 **[Zikai Xiong](https://zikaixiong.github.io)** (Georgia Tech ISYE)

September 22 **[Gabor Pataki](https://gaborpataki.web.unc.edu)** (UNC)

September 29 [**Jason Altschuler**](https://jasonaltschuler.github.io) (Wharton)

October 6 *Fall Break – no talk*

October 13 **[Jelena Diakonikolas](https://www.jelena-diakonikolas.com)** (Wisconsin)

October 20 **[Guy Blanc](https://web.stanford.edu/~gblanc/)** (Stanford)

October 27 **[Ruta Mehta](https://rutamehta.cs.illinois.edu)** (Illinois)

November 3 **[Nikhil Bansal](https://bansal.engin.umich.edu)** (Michigan)

November 10 **[Janani Sundaresan](https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jsundare/)** (Waterloo)

November 17 **[Sebastien Roch](https://people.math.wisc.edu/~roch/)** (Wisconsin)

November 24 *Thanksgiving week – no talk*

**Spring 2025 Schedule**

January 6: [Ce Jin](https://ce-jin.github.io) (MIT)

January 13: [Shunhua Jiang](https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jiangsh/) (Columbia)

January 20 : *MLK Day Holiday – No Seminar*

January 27: [Hanna Komlos](https://www.hannakomlos.com) (NYU)

February 3:

February 10: [Nikos Zarifis](https://nikoszarifis.github.io) (Wisconsin)

February 17: Jakob Hofstad (CMU)

February 24: [Souvik Ray](https://sites.google.com/view/souvik-ray/home) (North Carolina)

March 3: *No Seminar*

March 10: [Roy Schwartz](https://schwartz.cswp.cs.technion.ac.il) (Technion)

March 17: *Spring Break – No Seminar*

March 24: [Cheng Mao](https://cmao35.math.gatech.edu) (Georgia Tech)

April 14: [Neekon Vafa](https://neekonvafa.com) (MIT)

**Fall 2024 Schedule**

August 26: [Mengdi Wang](https://mwang.princeton.edu/) (Princeton)

September 2: *Labor Day Holiday – No Seminar*

September 9: [Aryan Mokhtari](https://sites.utexas.edu/mokhtari/)(UT Austin)

September 16: [Yuri Faenza](http://www.columbia.edu/~yf2414/) (Columbia)

September 23: [Xiaoyu He](https://alkjash.github.io/) (Georgia Tech)

October *7:*[Sidanth Mohanty](https://sidhanthm.com/)

November 4: [Ioannis Eleftheriadis](https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/ie257)

November 11: [Adam Kalai](https://kal.ai/)

**Videos of Past Colloquia**

[Tandy Warnow (UIUC): April 22, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Tanday%20Warnow/1_f27adsn2)

[Dor Minzer (MIT): March 25, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Dor%20Minzer/1_xxaz7mpx)

[Jacob Calvert (Georgia Tech): March 11, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Jacob%20Calvert/1_y8xwcx9p)

[Matthew Faw (Texas): March 4, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Matthew%20Faw/1_qkiwxsop)

[Tegan Wilson (Cornell): February 26, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Tegan%20Wilson/1_m1oakl8z)

[Kuldeep Meel (Toronto): February 19, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Kuldeep%20Meel/1_5fnj1k2p)

[Boya Hou (Illinois): February 12, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Boya%20Hou/1_pc1trryj)

[Neng Huang (U Chicago): February 5, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Neng%20Huang/1_0vg6t4tw)

[Evangelia Gergatsouli (Wisconsin): January 29, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Evangelia%20Gergatsouli/1_ks8f81cr)

[Wenzheng Li (Stanford): January 22, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/t/1_y0l92qsi)

[Binghui Peng (Columbia): January 8, 2024](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Binghui%20Peng/1_jj06vy6y)

[Ruoqi Shen (Washington): November 13, 2023](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Ruoqi%20Shen/1_fsmnlgm6)

[Mitali Bafna (MIT): October 30, 2023](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/Mitali%20Bafna%20ARC%20Colloquium%2010_30_23/1_14tgk4x8)

Thomas Rothvoss ARC lecture series on lattices and integer programming: [part I](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/Thomas%20Rothvoss%20ARC%20Lecture%20Series%2C%20Part%20I/1_pti4mq3n), [part II](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/Thomas%20Rothvoss%20ARC%20Lecture%20Series%2C%20Part%20II/1_ut1et100), [part III](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/Thomas%20Rothvoss%20ARC%20Lecture%20Series%2C%20Part%20III/1_eebm96uc)

[Rahul Ilango (MIT): October 16, 2023](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Rahul%20Ilango/1_u7v7l7z5)

[Thuy Duong Vuong (Stanford): October 2, 2023](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC%20Colloquium%20-%20Thuy%20Duong%20Vuong/1_ruxnpnyg)

Guy Bresler (MIT):  March 13, 2023 – <https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_82v4w67f>

Gregory Kehne (Harvard):  February 24, 2023 – <https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_3gw4y4fu>

Rohan Ghuge (UMich):  February 13, 2023 – <https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_xqw0rm6n>

Dylan Altschuler (NYU):  January 30, 2023 – <https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_t58fwxnt>

Brice Huang (MIT):  December 5, 2022 – <https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_ohlkt8jn>

Robert Tarjan (Princeton):  Nov. 11, 2022 – <https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/Dr.+Robert+Tarjan+Lecture+on+November+11+2022/1_64pbxl4t>

David Wajc (Stanford):  October 24, 2022 – ARC Colloquium – <https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_uhzr6tgq>

Debmalya Panigrahi (Duke University):  October 10, 2022 – [ARC Colloquium – October 10, 2022 – Debmalya Panigrahi](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_jue4kkxb)

Sinho Chewi (MIT):  October 3, 2022 – [ARC Colloquium – October 3, 2022 – Sinho Chewi](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_9rj0wx5s)

Rekha R. Thomas (University of Washington):  September 26, 2022 – [ARC Colloquium – September 26, 2022 – Rekha R. Thomas](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_dlnvojgp)

Sanjeev Khanna (University of Pennsylvania):  September 19, 2022 – [ARC Colloquium – September 19, 2022 – Sanjeev Khanna](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_jrayl89s)

Yuansi Chen (Duke University):  September 12, 2022 – [ARC Colloquium – September 12, 2022 – Yuansi Chen](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_6lmus5hx?st=231&ed=4153)

Jan van den Brand (Georgia Tech):  August 29, 2022 – [ARC Colloquium – August 29, 2022 – Jan van den Brand](https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/ARC+Colloquium/1_nr5wtfe6)

**Videos of Spring 2022 ARC Colloquiums (Virtual):**

Chandra Chekuri (Univ. of Illinois): April 11, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/SApqk_p5jdy>

Yang Liu (Stanford)[:](https://yangpliu.github.io/)March 14, 2022 [–](https://yangpliu.github.io/)<https://bluejeans.com/s/AsoEjNDV1wc>

Alex Wein (Georgia Tech)[:](https://www.alex-wein.com/)February 28, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/9YZEE6e42P4>

Nikhil Bansal (Univ. of Michigan):February 21, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/A__I2pPKVly>

ARC-ACO Lecture Series: Pravesh Kothari (CMU): February 18, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/GG_@9W0FRG3>

ARC-ACO Lecture Series: Pravesh Kothari (CMU): February 17, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/yq9Ka_OYFt5>

ARC-ACO Lecture Series: Pravesh Kothari (CMU): February 15, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/Lm2CBspHEaz>

David Gamarnik (MIT): February 14, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/CBMl7h@s_lh>

Kiran Shiragur (Stanford): February 11, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/MZnaFDnbEtT>

Manolis Vlatakis (Columbia): February 7, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/sBLA5QnIzQ4>

Ainesh Bakshi (CMU): January 31, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/P6qOVY5YUkx>

Bento Natura (LSE): January 28, 2022 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/WgA9y5HAU0Q>

**Videos of Fall 2020 ARC Colloquiums (Virtual):**

Surbhi Goel (Univ. of Texas @ Austin):  November 9, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/8AvXfRZD3bC/>

Matthew Fahrbach (Google Research):  November 2, 2020 – [https://bluejeans.coUni/s/buqMdMePpnX/](https://bluejeans.com/s/buqMdMePpnX/)

Alberto Del Pia (WISC): October 19, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/PC1yf>

Sumegha Garg (Princeton): October 12, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/tL9KU/>

**ThinkTankTalk:**Daniel Molzahn (Georgia Tech): October 5, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/kLmB9/>

Vera Traub (ETH Zurich): September 28, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/UtZhD>

**Videos of Joint ARC & Indo-US Virtual Center Seminars****(Virtual):**

Zongchen Chen (Georgia Tech): December 7, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/AVY_JCL3VlB/>

Zongchen Chen (Georgia Tech): November 30, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/tjfDP5BhAOa/>

Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington):  July 27, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/Thd_xiCqwr3/>

Lap Chi Lau (University of Waterloo):  July 20, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/FnVp0J4jM@B/>

Nikhil Bansal (CWI and TU Eindhoven): July 13, 2020 – <https://bluejeans.com/s/z5gzAfQ70EO/>