Theory Seminar
Spring 2010

CS 7890

*All seminars held in 5130 Upson Hall at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted*

Date & Time

Speaker

Title

Host

Jan 25, 2010   ***no theory seminar***** ECE Colloguium Sergio Verdu, Princeton 4:30 203 Phillips Hall

 

Feb 1, 2010
Katrina Ligett
Cornell University
Feb 8, 2010
Dexter Kozen
Cornell University
 
Feb 15, 2010

Approximation Algorithms for Multicommodity-Type Problems with Guarantees Independent of the Graph Size

Bobby Kleinberg
Feb 22 ,2010  
*** NO THEORY SEMINAR ***
Seminar canceled on account of Engineering Faculty Meeting.
 
Feb 22, 2010 Stephen Boyd, Stanford Univ. Talk that may be of interest: ECE Colloquium, 4:30 PM, 203 Phillips Hall, refreshments at 4:00pm (not required for CS7890 students)  
Feb 23, 2010 David Gamarnik, MIT Talk that may be of interest: ORIE Colloquium, 4:15 PM, 253 Rhodes Hall  
Mar 1, 2010

Mohammad Mahmoody
Princeton

On NP-hard Cryptography

Rafael Pass
Mar 8, 2010  
***NO THEORY SEMINAR***
 
Mar 15, 2010

Dov Gordon
University of Maryland

Fairness in Secure Computation

Rafael Pass
March 17, 2010

Security Amplification via Parallel Repetition

 
Mar 22, 2010
**** no seminar*****
***Spring Break*****
 
March 29, 2010
******Passover********

****NO THEORY SEMINAR*Passover*****

 
April 5, 2010
Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystem Laboratories
*****NO THEORY SEMINAR*****Talk that may be of interest: Information Science Colloquium: Comint v. Comsec: Does Wiretapping Make Us More Secure? 301 College Ave, 4:00 - 5:15pm Information Science
April 12, 2010

Alex Slivkins
Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley

Robert Kleinberg
April 19, 2010
Yaron Singer
UC Berkeley
Robert Kleinberg
April 26, 2010

Pedro Felzenszwalb
University of Chicago (on sabbatical at Cornell)

 
May 3, 2010

Ramesh Johari
Stanford University

Robert Kleinberg

 

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