Error-Correcting Codes and High-Dimensional Expansion Boot Camp

Program

Summer Cluster: Error-Correcting Codes and High-Dimensional Expansion

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Thursday, July 11 – Friday, July 12, 2019

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9 – 9:25 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9:25 – 9:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:30 – 11 a.m.

High Dimensional Expanders - Introduction and Motivation

Prahladh Harsha (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

11 – 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Irit Dinur (Weizmann Institute of Science)

12:30 – 3 p.m.

Lunch

3 – 4 p.m.

Spectral HDX II: Local to Global

Yotam Dikstein (Weizmann Institute of Science)

4 – 5 p.m.

Reception

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 11 a.m.

Connection Between Codes and HDX

Prahladh Harsha (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

11 – 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Spectral HDX III: Random Walks

Yotam Dikstein (Weizmann Institute of Science)

12:30 – 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 – 3 p.m.

Expansion from a Cohomological Viewpoint

Uli Wagner (IST Austria)

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 5 p.m.

Some Open Questions in Error-Correcting Codes

Mary Wootters (Stanford University)