The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups
Speaker: Daniel Wise (McGill University) Title: The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups Abstract: Cube complexes have come to play an increasingly central role within geometric group theory, as their connection to right-angled Artin groups provides a powerful […]
Quantum Money from Lattices
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Peter Shor (MIT) Title: Quantum Money from Lattices Abstract: Quantum money is a cryptographic protocol for quantum computers. A quantum money protocol consists of a quantum state which can be created (by the mint) and verified (by anybody with a quantum computer who knows what the "serial […]
Fluid Dynamics Seminar
Beginning immediately, until at least April 30, all seminars will take place virtually, through Zoom. Links to connect can be found in the schedule below once they are created. In […]
Previous Random Matrix & Probability Theory Seminars
Spring 2020: Date Speaker Title/Abstract 2/26/2020 Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill University) Title: Hipster random walks and their ilk Abstract: I will describe how certain recursive distributional equations can be solved by importing rigorous […]
Derandomizing Algorithms via Spectral Graph Theory
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Salil Vadhan (Harvard) Title: Derandomizing Algorithms via Spectral Graph Theory Abstract: Randomization is a powerful tool for algorithms; it is often easier to design efficient algorithms if we allow the algorithms to "toss coins" […]