NYU/Courant Theory Seminar


Schedule of talks in the past: Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Fall 2010 Spring 2012 Fall 2012

Spring 2013 Schedule

Friday, Feb 22st, 2013, 2:00pm - WWH 1314 - Will Perkins (Georgia Tech)
Random k-SAT and the Power of Two Choices
Friday, April 5th, 2013, 2:00pm - WWH 1314 - Howard Karloff (AT&T Labs)
Maximum Entropy Summary Trees
Friday, April 12th, 2013, 2:00pm - WWH 1314 - Afonso Bandeira (PACM, Princeton University)
Spectral Graph Theory, Angular Synchronization, and the Phase Retrieval Problem
Friday, April 26th, 2013, 2:00pm - WWH 1314 - Eli Ben Sasson (Technion and MIT)
Universal and affordable Computational Integrity, or, succinctly, from C to PCP
Friday, May 3rd, 2013, 2:00pm - WWH 1314 - Michail Lampis (KTH)
Baby steps towards TSP inapproximability


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