Student Seminar in Computational Complexity and Theoretical Cryptography


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Goal & audience

This is a reading group type of seminar mainly focused in modern techniques in Computational Complexity. Occasionally we review classical complexity theoretic results. We include topics from (but not limited to) Combinatorial and Algebraic Complexity, Structural Complexity and connections of Complexity and Logic. We work in an orthogonal direction to the Theory Student Seminar (TSS) running (quite successfully) in the department for many years. In contrast to TSS this seminar is much more focused and mainly works in a more tutorial-oriented fashion. We do not merely present a number of (significant) results but also we aim to provide in-depth coverage of subjects that interest participants. We try to keep the seminar structured in a mini-course fashion (consecutive, semantically related topics). Unlike regular seminars, when necessary a topic is accompanied with prerequisites presentation(s).

The seminar takes place once in every one or two weeks (or so) on Tuesday at 10.30 (10.30-11.10, 10 min break, 11.20-12.00), at the Theory Lab

Newsgroup

Current topic: Zero knowledge

Next Presentation

Topic: Non Interactive Zero Knowledge (NIZK)

Date: November 6

Schedule

Date Topic Presented by
Oct 23 and Nov 6, 2007 Non Interactive Zero Knowledge (NIZK) Yevgeniy
Oct 1 and 9, 2007 Interactive proofs, Zero knowledge and Complexity classes Periklis
Sep 24, 2007 Head-start: Graph non-Isomorphism Yevgeniy
Apr 13 to Sep 7, 2005 Session on Expanders


The schedule above the purple bar (ahead in time from the current presentation) is tentative.

Resources

Zero knowledge

Current and past topics

Future Topics (mini-courses)

Mailing list

If you want to be added to or removed from the e-mailing list of the seminar send an email to compseminar-request@cs.toronto.edu with your subscribe/removal request.


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Last updated: October 20, 2007