Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
27
2013

Mathematical Conversations

Local Codes and Symmetry
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

Many times in theoretical computer science we meet codes that have some local properties. For example Locally Decodable codes, Locally Testable codes, codes with Low Density Parity Check Matrix, Self Correctable codes and many others. In this talk...

Feb
26
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Derandomizing BPL?
10:30am|S-101

I will survey some of the basic approaches to derandomizing Probabilistic Logspace computations, including the "classical" Nisan, Impagliazzo-Nisan-Widgerson and Reingold-Raz generators, the Saks-Zhou algorithm and some more recent approaches. We'll...

Feb
25
2013

Members’ Seminar

Collective Phenomena, Collective Motion, and Collective Action in Ecological Systems
2:00pm|S-101

Fundamental questions in basic and applied ecology alike involve complex adaptive systems, in which localized interactions among individual agents give rise to emergent patterns that feed back to affect individual behavior. In such systems, a...