{"id":55467,"date":"2026-01-21T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=55467"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:22:52","slug":"ams-weekly-seminar-aravind-srinivasan","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/event\/ams-weekly-seminar-aravind-srinivasan\/","title":{"rendered":"AMS Weekly Seminar | Aravind Srinivasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>Shaffer 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> March 5th at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong><span>Generating and utilizing various types of negative dependence<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Various notions of negative dependence arise naturally and\/or are desirable in various random processes and randomized algorithms. We survey how to generate and utilize a few such notions of negative dependence, and sketch applications to concentration inequalities, fairness, and approximation algorithms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Aravind Srinivasan is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research interests include algorithms, probabilistic methods, data science, network science, machine learning, and optimization: theory, and applications in areas including AI interpretability and fairness, health, E-commerce, and cloud computing.\u00a0 He is a Fellow of the ACM, AAAS, IEEE, AMS, EATCS, and SIAM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoom link:<\/strong> https:\/\/wse.zoom.us\/j\/92366532431<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Shaffer 3 When: March 5th at 1:30 p.m. Title: Generating and utilizing various types of negative dependence Abstract: Various notions of negative dependence arise naturally and\/or are desirable 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