Organizer:
Michael
Saks
.
September 12
Speaker: Yuval Ishai, DIMACS
and AT&T Research
Title:
Randomizing polynomials: A new representation
with applications to
round-efficient secure computation
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431.
September 19
DIMACS
mixer seminar
September 26
No seminar because of
DIMACS workshop on sublinear algorithms
October 3
Speaker:
Michael Krivelich, Tel Aviv University
Title:
Two-coloring random hypergraphs
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
October 10
Speaker:
Omer Reingold, AT&T Research and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Title:
The Zig-Zag graph product and an elementary construction of expander graphs
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
October 17
Speaker:
Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University and NECI
Title:
A trace bound for the discrepancy
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
October 24
Speaker:
Pavel Pudlak, The Czech Academy of Science
Title:
On constructive lower bounds for Ramsey numbers
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
October 26 (Special Thursday seminar--note time and place)
Speaker:
Harvey Friedman, Ohio State University
Title:
Enormous Integers
Time:
2:50-3:50
Place:
Hill 705
October 31
Speaker:
Bernardo Abrego and Sylvia Fernandez, Rutgers University
Title:
A linear upper bound for the unit distance problem in convex position.
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
November 7
Speaker:
Salil Vadhan, Harvard University and Institute for Advanced Study
Title:
Extracting Randomness from Samplable Distributions
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
November 14
Speaker:
Cliff Smyth, Rutgers University
Title:
Equilateral and k-distance Sets in the L^p Norm
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
November 21
Speaker:
Yevgeniy Dodis, IBM Watson Research Laboratory and NYU
Title:
New Imperfect Random Source with Applications to Coin-Flipping.
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
November 28
Speaker:
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Title:
The Fourier Transform of Boolean Functions
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431
December 7 (Thursday not Tuesday)
Speaker:
Ashwin Nayak
Title:
Quantum Walk on a Line
Time:
4:30-5:30
Place:
CORE 431