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School of Mathematics

A Computer-Checked Proof that the Fundamental Group of the Circle is the Integers

Daniel Licata
Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
November 26, 2012 - 2:00pm

This talk is designed for a general mathematical audience; no prior knowledge of type theory is presumed.


Polynomial Identity Testing of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Progress

Michael Forbes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 26, 2012 - 11:15am

Polynomial Identity Testing (PIT) is the problem of identifying whether a given algebraic circuit computes the identically zero polynomial. It is well-known that this problem can be solved with small error probability by testing whether the circuit evaluates to zero on random evaluation points.


Uniqueness and Nondegeneracy of Ground States for Non-Local Equations

Rupert Frank
Princeton University
October 19, 2012 - 3:15pm

On the Parity of Coefficients of Modular Forms

Joel Bellaiche
Brandeis University
October 18, 2012 - 4:30pm

 


On the AND- and OR-Conjectures: Limits to Efficient Preprocessing

Andrew Drucker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
October 16, 2012 - 10:30am

One of the major insights of the ``fixed-parameter tractability’’ (FPT) approach to algorithm design is that, for many NP-hard problems, it is possible to efficiently *shrink* instances which have some underlying simplicity.


How to Find Periodic Orbits and Exotic Symplectic Manifolds

Mark McLean
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
October 15, 2012 - 2:00pm

 


A Multi-Prover Interactive proof for NEXP Sound Against Entangled Provers

Tsuyoshi Ito
NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
October 15, 2012 - 11:15am

We prove a strong limitation on the ability of entangled provers to collude in a multiplayer game. Our main result is the first nontrivial lower bound on the class MIP* of languages having multi-prover interactive proofs with entangled provers; namely MIP* contains NEXP, the class of languages decidable in non-deterministic exponential time.


Kan Simplicial Set Model of Type Theory

Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
October 25, 2012 - 11:00am

The Strauss Conjecture on Black Holes

Mihai Tohaneanu
Johns Hopkins University
October 23, 2012 - 3:15pm

Algebraic K-Theory Via Binary Complexes

Daniel Grayson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Mathematics
October 22, 2012 - 2:00pm

 

 


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