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Theory Colloquium Spring 2006

For more information on this series please see http://theory.csail.mit.edu/toc-seminars/


Piotr Indyk , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Near-Optimal Hashing Algorithm for the Approximate Nearest Neighbor Problem

Date: February 14 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155


Nir Shavit , Tel Aviv University
Virtual Leashing: Internet-Based Software Piracy

Date: February 21 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155


Robert Gallager , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Impact of Information Theory on Information Technology

Date: February 28 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155 (refreshments in RSA G5 Lounge)


Michael Krivelevich , Tel Aviv University
Property Testing in Graphs of General Density

Date: March 7 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 4-237 (refreshments in RSA G5 Lounge)


Avrim Blum , Carnegie Mellon University
On Decision-Making Without Regret, Routing Games, and Convergence to Equilibria

Date: March 14 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155 (refreshments in RSA G5 Lounge)


Leslie Valiant , Harvard University
A Quantitative Theory of Neural Computation

Date: March 21 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155


Moses Charikar , Princeton University
Near-Optimal Algorithms for Unique Games

Date: April 4 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155


Venkat Guruswami , University of Washington
Capacity-Achieving List Decodable Codes for Worst-Case Errors

Date: April 11 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155


Leonard Schulman , California Institute of Technology
Error-Correcting Codes for Automatic Control

Date: April 25 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155


Erik Demaine , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linkage Folding: From Steam Engines to Proteins

Date: May 2 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: RSA lounge, then talk in 6-120


Tali Kaufman , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Property Testing of Codes - Results, Methods and Limitations

Date: May 8 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575 (Theory Lab)


Subhash Khot , Georgia Institute of Technology
Lower Bounds for Approximating MAX-CUT and Sparsest Cut

Date: May 16 2006
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-155


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