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  • CS Colloquium: Jiapeng Zhang (Harvard) - Sunflowers and Their Applications in Computer Science and Mathematics

    Thu, Feb 20, 2020 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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    Speaker: Jiapeng Zhang, Harvard University

    Talk Title: Sunflowers and Their Applications in Computer Science and Mathematics

    Series: CS Colloquium

    Abstract: The sunflower is a simple notion in combinatorics, originally invented and studied by Erdos and Rado in 1960. Surprisingly, it has deep connections to fundamental problems in computer science, such as matrix multiplication, efficient data structures, computational complexity and cryptography. In my talk, I will explain our new results on sunflowers, how ideas emerging from computer science were critical in the proof, and how our new techniques can help shed light on some central problems in computer science and mathematics.

    This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium

    Biography: Jiapeng Zhang is a postdoc at Harvard with Prof. Salil Vadhan. He did his PhD at UC San Diego with Prof. Shachar Lovett. His research focuses on boolean function analysis, computational complexity, learning theory and cryptography.

    Host: Shaddin Dughmi

    Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Assistant to CS chair

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