Math 268 - Logic and Complexity

Dates: Fall 2012
Course Professors: Sam Buss, Russell Impagliazzo, Mohan Paturi.

Meeting times for Winter 2013: Tuesdays, 11:00-12:30, APM 6218.

This will be a reading and discussion seminar course devoted to understanding some core results in sublinear space.

Please sign up for the piazza.com roster for the course. (We are still using the Fall 2012 piazza.com pages.) The piazza.com pages will be used for posting announcements about the schedule; it may optionally be used for online discussion about course topics as well.
If you need a piazza.com invitation, email at Sam at sbuss@math.ucsd.edu.

Students who are actively attending are encouraged to sign up for one unit of credit.

The handwritten lectures or scribe notes are completely rough, unproofread, and unedited. They are intended to serve as an informal record of what might have been presented during the lecture. Caveat lector!

Lectures

January 15, 2013. Introductory topics overview, lecture by Sam Buss. Sam's handwritten lecture notes.

January 22, 2013. Reversible computation. Lecture by Sam Buss. Sam's handwritten lecture notes.

January 29, 2013. USTCON is in RLP: Undirected st-connectivity is in randomized polynomial time, log space. Lecture by Sam Buss. Sam's handwritten lecture notes.

February 5 and 12, 2013. Pseudorandomness for space bounded computation. Lectures by Russell Impagliazzo. Sam's handwritten scribe notes.

February 19 and 26, and March 5, 2013. "Expander graphs and SL=L (Reingold's Theorem)". Lectures by Sam Buss. Sam's handwritten lecture notes (MORE TO COME).