Columbia Theory Seminar, Fall 2005

For Fall 2005, the usual time and place for the meetings will be Wednesdays at 2:45pm in the CS conference room. Here is a schedule of seminars:

  • Wed, Sept 7th, 2:45pm in the CS Conference Room:   Adi Avidor: Rounding two and three dimensional solutions of the SDP relaxation of MAX CUT
    (Abstract)

  • Wed, Sept 21st, 2:45pm in the CS Conference Room: : Homin Lee: Separating Models of Learning from Correlated and Uncorrelated Data
    (Abstract)

  • Wed, Oct 5th, 2:45pm in the CS Conference Room: : Spyros Antonakopoulos: Fast Leader-Election Protocols with Bounded Cheaters' Edge
    (Abstract)

  • Thur, Oct 11th, 11:00am in the Interschool Lab (note unusual time and place) : Roee Engelberg: Equilibria in Online Games
    (Abstract)

  • Wed, Oct 26th, 11:00am in the Interschool Lab (part of the distinguished lecture series) Shafi Goldwasser: On the Possibility of Obfuscation with Auxilary Input
    (Abstract)

  • Wed, Nov 16th, 2:45pm in the CS conference room: Debbie Cook: Elastic Block Ciphers: Creating PRPs and Strong PRPs
    (Abstract)

  • Fri Nov 18th 9:30am-4:10pm at NYU (note unusual time, date, and location):

    The Columbia | NYU | IBM Research THEORY DAY

  • Tue, Nov 29th, 11:00am in the CS conference room (note unusual day and time): Sergei Vassilvitskii: On the Worst Case Complexity of the K-Means Method
    (Abstract)

  • Wed, Nov 30th, 2:45pm in the CS conference room: Nir Halman: Discrete LP-type model and discrete optimization
    (Abstract)

  • Wed, Dec 7th, 11:00am in the Interschool Lab (note unusual time): Silvio Micali: Rational Secure Computation and Ideal Mechanism Design
    (Abstract)

    Contact tal_at_cs.columbia.edu if you want to volunteer to give a talk (especially encouraged for students!). The talk can be about your or others' work. It can be anything from a polished presentation of a completed result, to an informal black-board presentation of an interesting topic where you are stuck on some open problem. It should be accessible to a general theory audience. I will be happy to help you choose papers to talk about.
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    Last updated 11/10/2005.

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