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Lectures: Thursday 10-12 SF 3202
Instructor: Toniann Pitassi, email: toni@cs
Office: Sandford Fleming 2305A, 978-3695
Office Hours: by appointment (send an email message).
Text: There is no required text for this course. Background material on computational complexity can be found in the book Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser.
Selected readings:
Nisan, Wigderson
Impagliazzo, Wigderson
Impagliazzo, 1995
Sudan, Trevisan, Vadhan
Pitassi-Raz
Miltersen Chapter
Trevisan's extractor paper
Journal version of Luca's paper
Pre-Trevisan survey on extractors
Raz, Resolution lower bounds for WPHP
Beame-Pitassi, lower bounds for PHP