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09-30
2010
Applications of Shellable Complexes to Distributed Computing
Speaker: Maurice Herlihy Brown University Time: 2010-09-30 14:00-2010-09-30 15:00 Venue: FIT 1-222 Download: Click! Abstract: A simplicial complex is shellable if it can be constructed by glui...
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08-20
2010
Constructing Optimal Restricted Phylogenetic Network for a Set of Binary Trees
Speaker: David Zhang The University of Hong Kong Time: 2010-08-20 14:00-2010-08-20 15:00 Venue: FIT 1-222 Abstract: In bioinformatics, to study the evolutionary relationship among a set of species,...
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07-01
2010
Improved Guarantees for Agnostic Learning of Disjunctions
Speaker: Avrim Blum Carnegie Mellon University Time: 2010-07-01 14:00-2010-07-01 15:00 Venue: FIT 1-222 Abstract: Given some arbitrary distribution D over {0,1}^n with points labeled by an arb...
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06-24
2010
A Lower Bound for Cooperative Broadcast in the Presence of Noise
Speaker: Michael Saks Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Time: 2010-06-24 14:00-2010-06-24 15:00 Venue: FIT 1-222 Abstract: In a noisy broadcast channel, processors communicate as fo...
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06-10
2010
Mobile Social Networking without Big Brother
Speaker: Monica Lam Stanford University Time: 2010-06-10 16:00-2010-06-10 17:00 Venue: FIT 4-603 Abstract: Motivated to offer consumers an alternative to centralized social networking, we hav...
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06-10
2010
Fairness and Partial Fairness in Secure Two-Party Computation
Speaker: Jonathan Katz University of Maryland Time: 2010-06-10 14:00-2010-06-10 15:00 Venue: FIT 4-603 Abstract: Protocols for secure two-party computation allow users holding inputs x and y, ...