Theory Seminar

• 这是南京大学理论计算机科学的讨论班主页。
• 本讨论班是open seminar，欢迎各方向的老师、研究生、以及本科生来参加。

时间地点	Speakers	Topics	Readings
3:00pm, 2018/12/18 计算机系楼 224	高宇 (GaTech, advised by Richard Peng (彭泱)	Graph algorithms via random walks.	papers[1],[2],[3]
3:00pm, 2018/12/11 计算机系楼 224	张勤	Distributed Statistical Estimation of Matrix Products with Applications.	paper[4]. and slides[5]
4:00pm, 2018/9/6 计算机系楼 223	刘宇攀	Toward an area law for stoquastic frustration-free Hamiltonians.	Complexity of Stoquastic Frustration-Free Hamiltonians Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity David Gosset's lecture notes
7:00pm, 2018/6/28 计算机系楼 231	姚鹏晖	Rectangles are Nonnegative Juntas.	Rectangles are Nonnegative Juntas
3:00pm, 2018/6/1 计算机系楼 224	陈海敏	1-to-1 Resource-Competitive Broadcast with Jamming.	A resource-competitive jamming defense (Near) Optimal Resource-Competitive Broadcast with Jamming
3:00pm, 2018/5/3 计算机系楼 319	刘明谋	An XOR Lemma for Quantum Communication Complexity.	Strong direct product theorems for quantum communication and query complexity
3:00pm, 2018/4/26 计算机系楼 319	夏盟佶 （中科院软件所）	On variable Lovász Local Lemma.	Variable Version Lovász Local Lemma: Beyond Shearer's Bound
3:00pm, 2018/1/12 计算机系楼 224	刘明谋	Communication Complexity of Lopsided Set Disjointness.	Unifying the Landscape of Cell-Probe Lower Bounds
3:00pm, 2017/12/29 计算机系楼 224	潘笑吟	Boolean function analysis and hypercontractivity.	Ryan O’Donnell's lecture notes
3:00pm, 2017/12/15 计算机系楼 224	宋仁杰	Belief Propagation and Bethe Approximation.	Yedida-Freeman-Weiss paper
3:00pm, 2017/12/8 计算机系楼 319	张驰豪 （香港中文大学）	Counting hypergraph colorings in the local lemma regime.	Counting hypergraph colorings in the local lemma regime
3:00pm, 2017/12/1 计算机系楼 224	陈海敏	A lower bound for the distributed Lovász local lemma	A lower bound for the distributed Lovász local lemma
3:00pm, 2017/11/10 计算机系楼 319	刘雅辉	A constructive algorithm for the Lovász Local Lemma on permutations	A constructive algorithm for the Lovász Local Lemma on permutations
3:00pm, 2017/11/3 计算机系楼 224	姚鹏晖 （U Maryland）	Information Complexity	The disjointness lower bound of Bar-Yossef et al.
3:00pm, 2017/10/20 计算机系楼 224	樊一麟	Crossing the Logarithmic Barrier for Dynamic Boolean Data Structure Lower Bounds.	Crossing the Logarithmic Barrier for Dynamic Boolean Data Structure Lower Bounds
3:00pm, 2017/9/15 计算机系楼 223	凤维明	Randomly Coloring Constant Degree Graphs	Dyer-Frieze-Hayes-Vigoda
3:00pm, 2017/7/14 计算机系楼 224	潘笑吟	Optimal Hashing-based Time–Space Trade-offs for Approximate Near Neighbors	Optimal Hashing-based Time–Space Trade-offs for Approximate Near Neighbors
3:00pm, 2017/6/30 计算机系楼 224	贝小辉 (NTU)	Cake Cutting: Networked Fairness, Envy and Truth
2:00pm, 2017/6/23 计算机系楼 224	周源 (Indiana University)	Parameterized Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems Above Average with Global Cardinality Constraints	Parameterized Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems Above Average with Global Cardinality Constraints
3:00pm, 2017/6/16 计算机系楼 224	刘明谋	Information complexity and direct-sum theorems.	BBCR paper The Information Complexity of Hamming Distance The disjointness lower bound of Bar-Yossef et al.
3:00pm, 2017/5/5 计算机系楼 224	凤维明 孙宇鑫	What can be sampled locally?	Our PODC 2017 paper
3:00pm, 2017/4/28 计算机系楼 224	张驰豪 （香港中文大学）	Rapid Mixing of Hypergraph Independent Set.	Hermon-Sly-Zhang's result
3:00pm, 2017/4/14 计算机系楼 224	凤维明	MCMC sampling for independent sets.	Dyer-Greenhill's algorithm Luby-Vigoda's analysis of Glauber dynamics Vigoda's note
3:00pm, 2017/4/7 计算机系楼 224	陈海敏	Distributed algorithms for maximal independent set.	Luby's algorithm Mohsen Ghaffari's breakthrough paper
3:00pm, 2017/3/31 计算机系楼 224	宋仁杰	Roots of the independence polynomial.	On a conjecture of Sokal concerning roots of the independence polynomial
3:00pm, 2017/3/24 计算机系楼 224	郑朝栋	Neighbor Discovery in Cognitive Radio Networks	Communication Primitives in Cognitive Radio Networks
3:00pm, 2017/3/17 计算机系楼 224	孙晓明 （中科院计算所）	On the Optimality of Tape Merge	On the Optimality of Tape Merge of Two Lists with Similar Size
4:00pm, 2017/3/10 计算机系楼 224	宋仁杰	Taylor approximation of non-vanishing complex-valued graph polynomials.	Deterministic polynomial-time approximation algorithms for partition functions and graph polynomials On a conjecture of Sokal concerning roots of the independence polynomial
3:30pm, 2016/12/22 计算机系楼 224	郭珩 （Queen Mary, University of London）	Uniform Sampling through the Lovász Local Lemma	Uniform Sampling through the Lovász Local Lemma
4:30pm, 2016/12/9 计算机系楼 224	凤维明	Rigorous Analysis of Asynchronous Gibbs Sampling	Ensuring Rapid Mixing and Low Bias for Asynchronous Gibbs Sampling
2:00pm, 2016/12/6 计算机系楼 224	姚鹏晖 （U Maryland）	Some Recent Progress on Quantum Information Complexity	Lower bound on expected communication cost of quantum Huffman coding New one shot quantum protocols with application to communication complexity Exponential Separation of Quantum Communication and Classical Information
4:30pm, 2016/11/25 计算机系楼 224	陈海敏	Lovász local lemma and approximate counting	Ankur Moitra's breakthrough paper on counting CNF
4:30pm, 2016/11/11 计算机系楼 224	潘笑吟	Fourier analysis; Hypercontractivity; Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH); approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS)	Motwani-Naor-Panigrahy's lower bound on LSH O’Donnell-Wu-Zhou's optimal lower bound on LSH a hash-based lower bound of Andoni et al.
4:30pm, 2016/10/28 计算机系楼 223	孙宇鑫	MCMC sampler; Glauber dynamics; path-coupling;	Frieze-Vigoda survey
4:30pm, 2016/10/14 计算机系楼 224	宋仁杰	Approximate Counting via Correlation Decay.	Weitz's paper
1pm, 2016/9/27 计算机系楼 224	刘明谋	Communication Complexity of Gap Hamming Distance.	Sherstov's simplified proof Chakrabarti-Regev 2010
4:30pm, 2016/9/23 计算机系楼 224	张驰豪 （上海交通大学 & 香港中文大学）	Sparsest cut; Bourgain Theorem; Leighton-Rao algorithm.	Luca Trevisan's notes: 1, 2
1pm, 2016/9/20 计算机系楼 224	张驰豪 （上海交通大学 & 香港中文大学）	Graph spectrum; Cheeger's Inequality; Fiedler's algorithm.	Luca Trevisan's notes: 1, 2, 3, 4