{"668823":{"#nid":"668823","#data":{"type":"news","title":"RANDOM-APPROX 2023 + TetFest60","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Rafael de la Llave\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEdited by Sal Barone\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will host in September three national conferences in the areas of algorithms, approximation, optimization and randomness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese apparently separate areas have surprising synergies. Clearly, optimization is important for applications where we try to do as well as possible. One needs algorithms to actually compute effectively these optimal results. One also needs to develop systematically simpler models that capture the essential features but are more tractable. Somewhat more surprising is that sometimes including a bit of randomness in the algorithms can help them perform better than a purely deterministic one. Jiggling the algorithmic steps a bit can lead to paths that were difficult to predict, and this can sometimes be more effective than a purely deterministic method. Of course there are other times that noise will confuse the results which makes both methods valuable in different situations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnderstanding and taking advantage to choose between these two possibilities and avoiding the pitfalls of each requires deep mathematics, mathematics that unify these apparently different objects and make quantitative predictions. New paradigms of computation are needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGT has been a leader in developing this area of mathematics, and in particular the ACO program has been nationally prominent for decades.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTwo series of conferences (RANDOM and APPROX) had been run annually for the last 25+ years. Recently, they have been held jointly, even if they have different history and a different team of organizers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/randomconference.com\/random-2023-home\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/randomconference.com\/random-2023-home\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/approxconference.wordpress.com\/\u00a0\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/approxconference.wordpress.com\/\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA third event will be a celebration of the 60 birthday of Prof. Prasad Tetali, who has been a leader in these areas for decades. His career provides a wonderful example of unifying different areas and discovering important synergies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProf. Tetali has had most of his career (so far) at GT arriving as a junior assistant professor and leaving as a Regents professor. Prasad has left a profound mark on GT and the School of Mathematics. He is now the head of the Mathematical Sciences Department of Carnegie Mellon. Besides his outstanding scientific contributions and mentoring of students and junior colleagues, organization of national conferences and special years, Prasad performed outstanding service to GT, being director of ARC, director of ACO, and interim chair of the School of Mathematics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/tetfest60\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/tetfest60\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a joint page for the three events see:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/randomapprox2023\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/randomapprox2023\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will host in September three national conferences in the areas of algorithms, approximation, optimization and randomness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech will host in September three national conferences in the areas of algorithms, approximation, optimization and randomness."}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2023-08-08 16:11:58","changed_gmt":"2023-08-10 12:23:59","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671361":{"id":"671361","type":"image","title":"slide_tetfest","body":null,"created":"1691670159","gmt_created":"2023-08-10 12:22:39","changed":"1691670196","gmt_changed":"2023-08-10 12:23:16","alt":"RANDOM-APPROX 2023 + TetFest60","file":{"fid":"254394","name":"slide_tetfest.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/08\/10\/slide_tetfest.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/08\/10\/slide_tetfest.png","mime":"image\/png","size":150362,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/08\/10\/slide_tetfest.png?itok=UJ8nzhNs"}},"635471":{"id":"635471","type":"image","title":"Prasad Tetali, Regents Professor in the School of Mathematics and the School of Computer Science","body":null,"created":"1589901272","gmt_created":"2020-05-19 15:14:32","changed":"1589901272","gmt_changed":"2020-05-19 15:14:32","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241818","name":"prasad tetali.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prasad%20tetali.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/prasad%20tetali.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":228654,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/prasad%20tetali.JPG?itok=MPyEm4mN"}}},"media_ids":["671361","635471"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/randomapprox2023\/","title":"RANDOM-APPROX 2023 + TetFest60"},{"url":"https:\/\/approxconference.wordpress.com","title":"APPROX Conference"},{"url":"https:\/\/randomconference.com\/random-2023-home\/","title":"RANDOM: The Conference 2023"},{"url":"https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/tetfest60\/","title":"TetFest60"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESal Barone\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["comm@math.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}