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Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors
October 21, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Speaker: David Zuckerman, Harvard CMSA/University of Texas at Austin
Title: Explicit Ramsey Graphs and Two Source Extractors
Abstract: Ramsey showed that any graph on N nodes contains a clique or independent set of size (log N)/2. Erdos showed that there exist graphs on N nodes with no clique or independent set of size 2 log N, and asked for an explicit construction of such graphs. This turns out to relate to the question of extracting high-quality randomness from two independent low-quality sources. I’ll explain this connection and our recent exponential improvement in constructing two-source extractors.