Scribe Notes

Scribe notes will be produced be a student after each lecture. To sign up to scribe a lecture send me an email.

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No Date Title Scribe
1August 25 Time Complexity (source files) Søren Valentin Haagerup
2August 27 Tape reduction and Time Hierarchy(source files) Andreas Hummelshøj Jakobsen
3September 1 Nondeterminism and Space Complexity(source files) Mikael Harkjær Møller
4September 3 Space and Time(source files) Camilla Lodahl Gravgaard
5September 8 Logspace reductions and completeness(source files) Claes Højer Jensen
6September 10 Alternation(source files) Jesper Broni Andersen
7September 15 Polynomial time hierarchy(source files) Mads Chr. Olesen
8September 17 Randomized computation(source files) Søren Valentin Haagerup
9September 22 Connecting PH, P/poly and BPP(source files) Martin Sergio Hedevang Fæster
10September 24 Counting complexity(source files) Camilla Lodahl Gravgaard
11September 29 Valiant-Vazirani and Toda's Theorem(source files) Andreas Hummelshøj Jakobsen
12October 1 Toda's Theorem. Parallel Computation and Circuits(source files) Mads Chr. Olesen
13October 6 Basic circuit constructions.(source files) Mikael Harkjær Møller
14October 8 Razborov-Smolensky Circuit Lower Bound(source files) Jesper Broni Andersen
15October 29 Circuits and Branching Programs(source files) Martin Sergio Hedevang Fæster
16November 3 Barrington's Theorem(source files) Claes Højer Jensen
17November 5 Interactive Proofs.(source files) Søren Valentin Haagerup
18November 10 IP=PSPACE. Arthur-Merlin Games.(source files) Andreas Hummelshøj Jakobsen
19November 12 Expander Graphs.(source files) Jesper Broni Andersen
20November 17 Error reduction and derandomization.(source files) Camilla Lodahl Gravgaard
21November 24 Derandomization using PRG's(source files) Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen
22November 26 Nisan-Wigderson PRG(source files) Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen
23December 1 Hardness Amplification(source files) Allan Rasmussen
24December 3 Probabilistically Checkable Proofs(source files) Claes Højer Jensen
25December 8 PCP based on Linearity Testing(source files) Allan Rasmussen
26December 10 PCP: Overview, degree reduction(source files) Martin Sergio Hedevang Fæster
27December 15 PCP: Gap amplification(source files) Allan Rasmussen