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29. Nov 2019

Hardness of approximation: From the PCP theorem to the 2-to-2 games theorem

Datum: 29. November 2019 | 16:00 – 17:00
Sprecher: Subhash Khot, New York University
Veranstaltungsort: Raiffeisen Lecture Hall

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Researchers firmly believe that no algorithm can efficiently compute optimal solutions to computationally complex problems called NP-hard problems. For many NP-hard problems, even computing an approximately optimal solution is NP-hard. This phenomenon, known as the hardness of approximation, has numerous connections to proof checking, optimization, combinatorics, discrete Fourier analysis, and geometry.

In this lecture, Subhash Khot will provide an overview of those connections. He will address why graph coloring is a computationally hard problem, how it is possible to check a proof without even looking at it, why computer scientists love the majority vote, and whether a shape exists that looks spherical as well as cubical. He will explain how all this fits into a 30-year research program starting with the foundational Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCP) Theorem and leading to the recent 2-to-2 Games Theorem.
 

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Datum:
29. November 2019
16:00 – 17:00

Sprecher:
Subhash Khot, New York University

Veranstaltungsort:
Raiffeisen Lecture Hall

Ansprechpartner:

Arinya Eller

Email:
arinya.eller@ist.ac.at

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