Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
25
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

New Locally Decodable Codes from Lifting
Madhu Sudan
11:15am|S-101

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes that allow for highly-efficient recovery of "pieces" of information even after arbitrary corruption of a codeword. Locally testable codes (LTCs) are those that allow for highly-efficient...

Mar
20
2013

Mathematical Conversations

A Trip to the Moon
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

Chaos Theory has been applied to find low energy spacecraft trajectories beginning with the successful Japanese lunar mission Hiten in 1991. The orbit design of this mission was based on the empirical concept of a `weak stability boundary’, due to...

Mar
19
2013

Analysis Seminar

Dynamics of Gibbs Measure Evolution for the Radial Nonlinear Schr\"odinger and Wave Equations on the Ball
3:15pm|S-101

In this talk, we present recent works with Jean Bourgain on global well-posedness for the radial nonlinear Schr\"odinger and wave equations set on the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with supercritical data chosen randomly in the support of the...

Mar
19
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Sensitivity Versus Block Sensitivity, II
10:30am|S-101

There are two important measures of the complexity of a boolean function: the sensitivity and block sensitivity. Whether or not they are polynomial related remains a major open question. In this talk I will survey some known results on this...