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Algorithms and Complexity Series 2006/2007

For more information on this series please see http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~madhu/algcompsem.html


Piotr Indyk , MIT CSAIL
Uncertainty Principles, Extractors, and Explicit Embeddings of L2 into L1

Date: February 15 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Jon Feldman , Google Research
Algorithmic Issues in Internet Search Advertising

Date: February 21 2007
Time: 4:15PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G449/Patil Conference Room


Dan Gutfreund , Harvard
Designing Efficient Program Checkers by Delegating Their Work

Date: February 22 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Mohit Singh , CMU
Approximating Minimum Bounded Degree Spanning Trees to within one of Optimal

Date: March 8 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Alexandr Andoni , MIT CSAIL
Lower Bounds for Edit Distance Estimation

Date: March 22 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Petar Maymounkov , MIT CSAIL
Geometric Routing, Embeddings and Hyperbolic Spaces

Date: April 12 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Kyomin Jung , MIT
**CANCELLED** Approximate Inference Algorithms

Date: April 19 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15AM
Location: 32-G575


Kyomin Jung , MIT
Approximation algorithms for doubling dimensional metric spaces

Date: May 10 2007
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Wojciech Szpankowski , Purdue University
Analytic Algorithmics, Combinatorics, And Information Theory

Date: September 15 2006
Time: 2:00PM to 3:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Nick Harvey , MIT CSAIL
The Conjugate Gradient Method with Automatic Preconditioning

Date: September 18 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Dana Ron , Tel Aviv University
Approximating the distance to properties in sparse graphs

Date: September 25 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:30PM
Location: 32-G575 (Theory Lab)


Evdokia Nikolova , MIT CSAIL
CANCELLED: Stochastic Shortest Paths via Quasi-Convex Maximization

Date: October 2 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Aranyak Mehta , IBM Almaden Research Center
Design is as Easy as Optimization

Date: October 16 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Nir Halman , MIT
Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for Convex and for Monotone Stochastic Dynamic Programming

Date: October 30 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Sidharth Jaggi , MIT LIDS
Fighting Byzantine Adversaries in Networks: Network Error-Correcting Codes

Date: November 6 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Sergey Yekhanin , MIT CSAIL
New Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval Schemes

Date: November 13 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Vitaly Feldman , Harvard University
On Computational Hardness of Agnostic Learning

Date: November 27 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:30AM
Location: 32-G575 (Theory Lab)


Vitaly Feldman , Harvard
On Computational Hardness of Agnostic Learning

Date: November 27 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Julia Chuzhoy , IAS
Cut Problems in Graphs: Algorithms and Complexity

Date: December 4 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


Ning Xie , MIT
Testing k-wise and Almost k-wise Independence

Date: December 11 2006
Time: 4:00PM to 5:15PM
Location: 32-G575


For more information on this series please see http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~madhu/algcompsem.html

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