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- From: gerri@cse.ucsc.edu (Gerri McLellan)
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- Subject: UCSC CE/CIS Research Seminar 1/14/93
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 16:17:55 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
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- UC Santa Cruz: Computer & Information Sciences, and
- Computer Engineering
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- RESEARCH SEMINAR: Thursday, January 14, 1993, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
- Room 330, Applied Sciences Building
- Refreshments at 10:15.
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- Muli Safra, Stanford University, will speak on "Probabilistic Checking of
- Proof and the Hardness of Approximation Problems"
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- Abstract:
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- The talk will discuss a new characterization of the class NP --- as
- all languages whose membership proofs can be verified
- probabilistically, using a small number of random bits and reading
- only a few bits of the membership proof --- and the application of
- this characterization to show NP-hardness of various approximation
- problems.
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- Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is
- encouraged to call Gerri McLellan at the Baskin Center - (408) 459-3695.
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