Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
05
2004

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

The Complexity of Agreement
10:30am|S-101

A celebrated 1976 theorem of Aumann asserts that honest, rational Bayesian agents will never "agree to disagree": if their opinions about any topic are common knowledge, then those opinions must be equal. Economists have written numerous papers...

Oct
04
2004

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Lower Bounds for Linear Degeneracy Testing
11:15am|S-101

In the late nineties Erickson proved a remarkable lower bound on the decision tree complexity of one of the central problems of computational geometry: given $n$ numbers, do any $r$ of them add up to $0$? His lower bound of $\Omega(n^{\lceil r/2...