Breadcrumb

Randomness and complexity

03 July 2006 to
07 July 2006

Contact Person: Cathy Badley

Organisers: Dominic Welsh, Mark Jerrum

Description
Workshop held by the Heilbronn Instiute/University of Bristol

Main Speakers

  • Magnus Bordewich (Durham): Optimising metrics in path coupling
  • Graham Brightwell (LSE): Extremal subgraphs of random graphs
  • Harry Buhrman (Amsterdam): Kolmogorov complexity & computational complexity
  • Mary Cryan (Edinburgh): Approximately counting lattice points
  • Irit Dinur (Hebrew University): The PCP Theorem by gap amplification
  • Martin Dyer (Leeds): Randomly colouring bipartite graphs
  • Alan Frieze (Carnegie Mellon): Line-of-sight networks
  • Lance Fortnow (Chicago): Computational depth
  • Leslie Ann Goldberg (Warwick): Inapproximability of the Tutte polynomial
  • Oded Goldreich (Weizmann Institute): Pseudorandomness
  • Colin McDiarmid (Oxford): The maximum degree of a random planar graph
  • Russell Martin (Liverpool): Recent results about load balancing
  • Steven Noble (Brunel): Evaluating graph polynomials in polynomial time
  • Alistair Sinclair (Berkeley): Reconstruction problems on trees
  • Luca Trevisan (Berkeley): Gowers uniformity
  • V Vazirani (Georgia): New market models and algorithms