Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
27
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Computational Complexity in Mechanism Design
10:30am|S-101

Some important mechanisms considered in game theory require solving optimization problems that are computationally hard. Solving these problems approximately may not help, as it may change the players’ rational behavior in the original mechanisms...

Nov
26
2012

Members’ Seminar

A Computer-Checked Proof that the Fundamental Group of the Circle is the Integers
2:00pm|S-101

This talk is designed for a general mathematical audience; no prior knowledge of type theory is presumed. One of the main goals for the special year on univalent foundations is the development of a logical formalism, called homotopy type theory...

Nov
26
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Polynomial Identity Testing of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Progress
11:15am|S-101

Polynomial Identity Testing (PIT) is the problem of identifying whether a given algebraic circuit computes the identically zero polynomial. It is well-known that this problem can be solved with small error probability by testing whether the circuit...