Theory Seminar - 2008

The focus of the seminar will be on recent results in theoretical computer science 
 in areas such as algorithms, complexity, and cryptography.
 Speakers will be invited from universities in Israel and abroad.
 
 
 
28.10.07
Speaker: Johann (Janos) Makowsky, Technion.
Taub 337
10:30
Title: Why is the chromatic polynomial a polynomial? 
 
 
4.11.07
Speaker: Jonathan Hoch, Weizmann.
Taub 337
10:30
Title: Finding Collisions in Interactive Protocols -- A Tight 
Lower Bound on the Round Complexity of Statistically-Hiding Commitments  
 
 
11.11.07
Speaker: Ronen Shaltiel, Haifa.
Taub 337
10:30
Title: Low-end uniform hardness versus randomness tradeoffs for AM
  
 
 
25.11.07
Speaker: Shachar Lovett, Weizmann
Taub 337
10:30
Title: Unconditional pseudorandom generators for low degree polynomials
  
 
 
2.12.07
Speaker: Julia Kempe, Tel Aviv.
Taub 337
10:30
Title: On the hardness of entangled multi-prover games 
 
 
16.12.07
Speaker: Ofer Neiman, Hebrew U.
Taub 337
10:30
Title: Local Embedding of Metric Spaces
  
 
 
23.12.07
Speaker: Guy Rothblum, MIT.
Taub 337
10:30
Title: Delegating Computation: Interactive Proofs for Mortals
 
 
30.12.07
Speaker: Asaf Shapira, Microsoft.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Approximate Hypergraph Partitioning and Applications  
 
 
13.1.08
Speaker: Amir Yehudayoff, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Multilinear Formulas, Maximal-Partition Discrepancy and Mixed-Sources Extractors
 
 
20.1.08
Speaker: Adi Shraibman, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Disjointness is hard in the multi-party number-on-the-forehead model
 
 
27.1.08
Speaker: Vinod Vaikuntanathan, M.I.T.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Trapdoors for Hard Lattices, and New Lattice-based Cryptography
 
 
3.2.08
Speaker: Shahar Dobzinski, Hebrew U and Technion.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: The Power of VCG: On Algorithms that are Maximal In Range
 
 
10.2.08
Speaker: Irit Dinur, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Local testing of direct products
 
 
24.2.08
Speaker: Zeev Dvir, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Hardness-Randomness Tradeoffs for Bounded Depth Arithmetic Circuits  
 
 
2.3.08
Speaker: Robert Krauthgamer, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Lower Bounds for Edit Distance Estimation  
 
 
9.3.08
Speaker: Jakob Nordström, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Towards an Optimal Separation of Space and Length in Resolution
 
 
30.3.08
Speaker: David Xiao, Princeton.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Secure Internet Path Quality Monitoring: Tradeoffs in Security and Efficiency  
 
 
6.4.08
Speaker: Avraham Ben-Aroya, Tel Aviv.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: A combinatorial construction of almost-Ramanujan graphs using the
zig-zag product
 
 
25.5
Speaker: Alex Samorodnitsky, Hebrew U.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Bounds for codes and an isoperimetric inequality in the Hamming cube
 
 
1.6.08
Speaker: Guy Kindler, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Can cubic tiles be sphere-like?
 
 
15.6.08
Speaker: Venkatesan Guruswami, Washington U.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Expander codes, Euclidean sections, and compressed sensing  
 
 
22.6.08
Speaker: Avinatan Hassidim, Hebrew U.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers  
 
 
29.6.08
Speaker: Zeev Dvir, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: The finite field Kakeya conjecture  
 
 
6.7.08
Speaker: Or Meir, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Combinatorial Construction of Locally Testable Codes  
 
 
13.7.08
Speaker: Benjamin Rossman, M.I.T.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: The Constant-Depth Complexity of k-Clique
 
 
20.7.08
Speaker: Dana Moshkovitz, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error
 
 
3.8.08
Speaker: Asaf Nussbaum, Weizmann.
Taub 337
11:00
Title: Pseudorandom graphs - what if distinguishers where first order properties?