Department of Computer Science - Daimi

Faculty of ScienceUniversity of Aarhus



Workshop on Algebraic Complexity Theory



Wednesday
10.15--11.00Ketan Mulmuley On P vs NP, Geometric Complexity theory, and the Flip (I)
11.15--12.00Ketan Mulmuley On P vs NP, Geometric Complexity theory, and the Flip (I)
[lunch]
13.15--14.15Raghavendra Rao Arithmetic circuits, syntactic multilinearity, and the limitations of skew formulae
14.30--15.00Maurice Jansen Lower Bounds for Syntactically Multilinear Algebraic Branching Programs
[break] Note: Manindra Agrawal speaks outside of this workshop on "PRIMES is in P" at the Mathematics Department at 16.15 (See here).
Thursday
10.00--10.45Ketan Mulmuley On P vs NP, Geometric Complexity theory, and the Flip (II)
11.00--11.45Ketan Mulmuley On P vs NP, Geometric Complexity theory, and the Flip (II)
[lunch]
13.15--14.15Pascal Koiran On the expressive power of planar perfect matching and permanents of bounded treewidth matrices
14.30--15.30Manindra Agrawal Arithmetical Circuits: A Chasm at Depth Four
[break]
16.15--17.15Nicolas RessayreA Quadratic Bound for the Determinant and Permanent Problem
17.30--18.30Jayalal Sarma Matrix Rigidity : Computation and (Algebraically) Explicit Constructions
Friday
10.00--10.45Ketan Mulmuley On P vs NP, Geometric Complexity theory, and the Flip (III)
11.00--11.45Ketan Mulmuley On P vs NP, Geometric Complexity theory, and the Flip (III)
[lunch]
12.55--13.55 Pascal Koiran Decision versus evaluation in algebraic complexity theory
[break]
15.05--16.05 Manindra Agrawal A Possible Pseudorandom Generator Against Arithmetic Circuits
Location of all talks: Turing 014, Computer Science Department, IT-Parken, Aabogade 34.