Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
25
2008

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Expander Cryptography -- Cryptography With Constant Computational Overhead
Amit Sahai
10:30am|S-101

Current constructions of cryptographic primitives typically involve a large multiplicative computational overhead that grows with the desired level of security. We explore the possibility of implementing cryptographic primitives (such as encryption...

Mar
24
2008

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Testing Symmetric Properties of Distributions
Paul Valiant and Paul Valiant
11:15am|S-101

We introduce the notion of a Canonical Tester for a class of properties on distributions, that is, a tester strong and general enough that ``a distribution property in the class is testable if and only if the Canonical Tester tests it''. We...