Expanders

From April 13 to September 7, 2005

Date Topic Presented by
Sep. 28, 2005
Sep. 21, 2005
SL=L Paul
Sep. 7, 2005 Tight lower bounds for metric embeddings via expanders Periklis
July 6, 2005 Hardness of clique Ali *
June 29, 2005 Uniform constructions II: Zig-Zag Paul
June 15, 2005 Uniform constructions I: Basic constructions for expanders Matei
June 8 Random walks on expandersPhuong
May 26 The Computational Complexity of Logical TheoriesCharles Rackoff
May 11, 2005 Attempts to show NL not equal to PStephen Cook
April 20, 2005 Connections between the spectral gap and the expansion factor Mark
April 13, 2005 Head-Start (Linear Algebra prerequisites) Mark*


Resources

  • We follow A. Wigderson and N. Linial course notes.
  • A link to a similar course given by S. Hoory (that makes use of a quite similar set of notes from the same people) can be found here.