TOC SEMINAR CALENDAR (Summer 2002)



Previous seminars, Future seminars: Fall 2002

Talks are on Wednesdays at 1:15 pm, with refreshments at 1:00 pm, in room NE43-518 (unless otherwise stated).

Wednesday May 29th
Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC Research Institute
What can we do in sublinear time?

Wednesday June 5th
Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute
Resolution Lower Bounds for the Weak Pigeonhole Principle

Wednesday June 12th in room NE43-941 (Note room)
Rosario Gennaro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Lower Bounds on the Efficiency of Generic Cryptographic Constructions

Wednesday July 10th
Robert Lang, Alamo, California
Squares, Circles, and Trees: Algorithms for Origami Design

Wednesday August 7th
Amit Sahai, Princeton University
Dimension Reduction in the $\ell_1$ norm

Wednesday August 28th in room NE43, 2nd floor lounge (Note room)
Sandor Fekete, TU Braunschweig
Higher-Dimensional Packing Problems with and without Order Constraints


Seminar organisers:
Santosh Vempala Email: vempala@math.mit.edu
Grant Wang Email: gjw@theory.lcs.mit.edu