Dartmouth Theory Reading Group (TRG)


Winter 2009
Mon/Tue, 4:00 -- 5:30pm
Sudikoff 245 and/or Kemeny 229

Past TRG sessions: [ Spring 2008 | Winter 2008 | Fall 2007 | Fall 2006 | Spring 2006 | Winter 2006 | Fall 2005 ]

Dates: Tuesday, Jan 20
Topic: Pointer Jumping (communication complexity)
Source Materials:
Speakers: Joshua Brody
Dates: Tuesday, Jan 27
Topic: Impossibility results in message passing model and Failure detectors
Source Materials:
Speakers: Vibhor Bhatt
Dates: Monday, Feb 2
Topic: Distributed functional monitoring (communication complexity)
Source Materials:
Speakers: Chrisil Arackaparambil
Date: Tuesday, Feb 10
Topic: TBA
Source Materials:
  • TBA
Speakers: Umang Bhaskar
Date: Monday, Feb 16
Topic: TBA
Source Materials:
  • TBA
Speakers: Florin Constantin (Harvard)
Date: Tuesday, Feb 24
Topic: Lower bounds for PIR with 1-bit answers
Source Materials:
Speakers: Ranganath Kondapally
Date: Monday, Mar 2
Topic: Nearest neighbor searching (data structures)
Source Materials:
Speakers: Amit Chakrabarti
Date: Tuesday, Mar 10
Topic: Impossibility results in message passing model and Failure detectors (continued)
Source Materials:
Speakers:

Vibhor Bhatt