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FOCS 2007
48th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Foundations of Computer Science


October 20-23, 2007
Providence, RI


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Practical information

Participation to the tutorials is free of additional charge for FOCS participants, but prior registration is required.

Tutorials will take place on the Brown University Campus in Room 129 in Metcalf Laboratory, at the corner of Waterman Street and Thayer street (see the local map). This is very close to the Brown Computer Science department (at the corner of Waterman Street and Brook Street). Participants will be on their own for lunch, with many possibilities available on Thayer street.

A reception will follow from 7-9PM at the conference hotel.

Tutorial schedule



Saturday, October 20, 2007

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Snacks

10:00 - 12:00 Tutorial 1 (Chair: Luca Trevisan)

Terence Tao (UCLA)
Structure and Randomness in Combinatorics


Combinatorics, like computer science, often has to deal
with large objects of unspecified (or unusable) structure.   One
powerful way to deal with such an arbitrary object is to decompose it
into more usable components.  In particular, it has proven profitable
to decompose such objects into a structured component, a pseudo-random
component, and a small component (i.e. an error term); in many cases
it is the structured component which then dominates.  We illustrate
this philosophy in a number of model cases.

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1:30 - 3:30 Tutorial 2 (Chair: Daniele Micciancio)

Dan Boneh (Stanford)
A Brief Look at Pairings-Based Cryptography

Over the past few years a new tool from algebraic geometry, called
bilinear groups, has transformed public-key cryptography.  Bilinear
groups enable the development of a new generation of cryptosystems
that solve long standing open problems in cryptography and provide
brand new functionality.  A few examples include, short digital
signatures, perfect non-interactive zero-knowledge, and efficient
identity-based encryption.  In this tutorial we will discuss some of
the mathematical tools underlying bilinear groups, including the Weil
pairing and Miller's algorithm.  Our focus, however, will be on a few
key examples that illustrate how bilinear groups are used to construct
cryptosystems.

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4:00 - 6:00 Tutorial 3 (Chair: Chris Umans)

Daniel Spielman (Yale)
Theory and Applications of Graph Spectra

In this lecture, we will study the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the
Laplacian and normalized Laplacian matrices of graphs.  Our first goal
will be to provide intution as to why these eigenvectors and
eigenvalues should reveal combinatorial structure.  We will examine
applications of eigenvectors and eigenvalues to drawing, ranking,
partitioning, clustering and coloring problems in graphs.  We will
also discuss connections to random walks in graphs, and how they
inspire applications of graph spectra in machine learning and image
segmentation.  We will conclude with a discussion of the theory and
practice of computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and how results
from spectral graph theory may be applied to accelerate those
computations.
We will supply examples you can try at home using either Matlab or Python.

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