News and calendar

For general information about the seminar, please head to its main page.

15.2.2012: The lecture notes for your lectures are posted, as well as "bonus" notes for Yonatan's lecture. Look for them in the schedule comments. Enjoy.

14.2.2012: Grades have been submitted. Also, another extremely retroactive (and somewhat approximate) schedule update. I hope to post the lecture notes shortly.

8.12.2011: The schedule is update, mostly retroactively. A download of Erez's lecture notes will follow.

27.10.2011: Welcome. The list of topics is not updated (I hope to update it soon), so note that you can also select a paper on the new topic of Massively Parametrized Properties, as well as other new topics. Contact me for details if you are interested in a topic not appearing on the list.

Time and place

Mondays at 14:30, Taub 8. For this year the seminar's number is 236806.

Office hour for this year: Wednesdays at 14:30.

Format for this year

Any changes to the standard format will be posted here during the first two weeks (probably there will be none).

Calendar

The following is the calendar set so far (last updated 27.10.2011). Submitted writeups and slides will be linked from it.

Date Person Topic Comments
30.10 Me Introduction to property testing
6.11 Me The dense model and bipartiteness
13.11 Me A short primer to other topics
20.11 Erez k-partiteness testing Lecture notes
27.11 Me Dense model - adaptive and non-adaptive
4.12 Me Randomness, adaptivity and Yao's method
11.12 Me Tailoring Yao's method to adaptive tests
18.12 Netanel Lower bounds from communication complexity Lecture notes
1.1 Netanel Lower bounds (cont)
8.1 Yonatan Goldhirsch Testing tree colorings Lecture notes (guest talk)
15.1 Arie Matsliah Hypergraph partition testing Guest talk
22.1 Me Distribution testing
29.1 Arie Matsliah Testing and PCPP trade-offs Guest talk