Weekly Theory Seminar

Unless otherwise indicated, theory seminars are held Mondays 2:30-4:30 in Ryerson 276.

October 7. Ravi Kant will present the new result:
Primality Testing is (unconditionally) in P.
Postscript version of full paper.

October 14. Ozgur Sumer will present the paper by Jurgen Forster, "A Linear Lower Bound on the Unbounded Error Probabilistic Communication Complexity" (CCC 2001).

October 21. Murali Krishnan will present the paper by A. Chistov, H. Fournier, L. Gurvits and P. Koiran. Vandermonde Matrices, NP-Completeness, and Transversal Subspaces

October 28. Bruno Codenotti will give a talk on
Low rank matrices, cycles in graphs, and computational complexity
Click here for the abstract.

November 1. Special talk of interest to theoreticians: Ivona Bezakova's Masters paper presentation: "The Spectral Gap of a Random Walk in High-Dimensional Convex Bodies". See events page for details. This talk will be in Ryerson 251

November 4. Michael Langberg will be visiting and talking in the departmental Seminar. See the departments events page for details. This talk will be in Ryerson 251

November 18. No seminar (FOCS)

November 25. Daniel Stefankovich will present the paper
Dimension Reduction in the L_1 Norm by Moses Charikar and Amit Sahai (IEEE FOCS 2002.) It is also available here

Other Theory Events of Interest in Chicago

December 4. Dr. Howard Karloff, AT&T Labs Research will give the Distinguished IIT Seminar talk "On the Fractal Behavior of TCP" at 3:00PM at the Illinois Institute of Technology. More information at the IIT website.

December 7. Midwest Theory Day