For Valentine’s day, Stephen talked about efficient algorithms for sampling a stationary random field defined on a torus. Sugar-topped flour tori will be provided.

The material discussed can be found in the book [1].

[1] H. Rue and L. Held, Gaussian Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2005. doi: 10.1201/9780203492024.

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Stephen talked about past work on efficiently recovering private data from the anime tracking website through queries against an affinity oracle.

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