Previous Conferences & Workshops

May
16
2006

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Randomness Reduction in Some Results of Asympotic Geometric Analysis
Shiri Artstein
10:30am|Dilworth Room

I will describe some recent results joint with V. Milman in which we take the computer science approach to derandomization and apply it in questions from asymptotic geometric analysis. The special type of questions requires an adaptation of the...

May
15
2006

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

New Connections Between Derandomization, Worst-Case Complexity and Average-Case Complexity
Danny Gutfreund
11:15am|Dilworth Room

We show new connections between derandomization, worst-case hardness and average-case hardness. Specifically, we show that a mild derandomization assumption together with the worst-case hardness of NP implies the average-case hardness of a language...