Avi Wigderson's Survey Talks

Survey Talks

  • "Kurt Goedel, von Neumann, and Theoretical Computer Science",
    a talk given at the 75th anniversary of the school of Mathematics at the IAS. ( [Powerpoint] [RealVideo] )
  • Extractors - optimal to constant factors [PowerPoint]
  • The power and weakness of randomness (when you are short on time) [PowerPoint]
  • Games computers (and computer scientists) play [PowerPoint]
  • The digital envelope - a crash course in modern cryptography [PowerPoint]
  • Depth through Breadth (or why should we listen to talks in other areas) [PowerPoint]
  • Complexity Insights [HTML] [PowerPoint]
  • Zigzag product, expander constructions, connections and applications (more applications than the survey below) [PowerPoint]
  • Expander graphs - where combinatorics and algebra compete and cooperate (more algebraic than the survey above) [PowerPoint]
  • The Sum-Product Theorem and Applications [PowerPoint] [Abstract]