[Theory] Re: Distinguished Lecture at TTIC: Professor Shafi Goldwasser

[Latrice Richards]

*Please note the corrected website*

Friday, November 8, 2019 at 10:30 am
TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Room #526
For more details please visit our website at   https://www.ttic.edu/dls/

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 9:48 AM Latrice Richards <lrichards at ttic.edu> wrote:

> Distinguished Lecture at TTIC: Professor Shafi Goldwasser, University of
> California, Berkeley, MIT and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
>
> Friday, November 8, 2019 at 10:30 am
> TTIC
> 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
> Room #526
> For more details please visit our website at  http://box.ttic.edu/dls/
>
> *Title: “Pseudo Deterministic Algorithms and Proofs”*
>
> *Abstract*: Probabilistic algorithms for both decision and search
> problems can offer significant complexity improvements over deterministic
> algorithms. One major difference, however, is that they may output
> different solutions for different choices of randomness. This is less than
> desirable in settings where uniqueness of output is important such as in
> the generation of system-wide cryptographic parameters or in a distributed
> setting where different sources of randomness are used.
> Pseudo-deterministic algorithms are a class of randomized search
> algorithms, which output a unique answer with high probability.
> Intuitively, they are indistinguishable from deterministic algorithms by a
> polynomial time observer of their input/output behavior. In this talk I
> will describe what is known about pseudo-deterministic algorithms in the
> sequential, sub-linear and parallel setting. I will also describe an
> extension of pseudo-deterministic algorithms to interactive proofs for
> search problems where the verifier is guaranteed with high probability to
> deliver the same output on different executions, regardless of the prover
> strategies.
>
> *Bio*: Shafi Goldwasser is Director of the Simons Institute for the
> Theory of Computing, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
> Science at the University of California Berkeley. Goldwasser is also
> Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and
> Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann
> Institute of Science, Israel. Goldwasser holds a B.S. Applied Mathematics
> from Carnegie Mellon University (1979), and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer
> Science from the University of California Berkeley (1984).
>
> Goldwasser's pioneering contributions include the introduction of
> probabilistic encryption, interactive zero knowledge protocols, elliptic
> curve primality testings, hardness of approximation proofs for
> combinatorial problems, and combinatorial property testing.
>
> Goldwasser was the recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 2012, the Gödel
> Prize in 1993 and in 2001, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1996, the
> RSA Award in Mathematics in 1998, the ACM Athena Award for Women in
> Computer Science in 2008, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2010, the IEEE
> Emanuel R. Piore Award in 2011, the Simons Foundation Investigator Award in
> 2012, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2018.
> Goldwasser is a member of the NAS, NAE, AAAS, the Russian Academy of
> Science, the Israeli Academy of Science, and the London Royal Mathematical
> Society. Goldwasser holds honorary degrees from Ben Gurion University, Bar
> Ilan University, Haifa University, and the University of Oxford, and has
> received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Barnard
> College Medal of Distinction.
> .
>


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