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Thesis Defenses

2020

July 22, 2020:  Katerina Sotiraki:  New hardness results for total search problems and non-interactive lattice protocols

 

2019

November 25, 2019: Srinivasan Raghuraman: Infrastructures for Secure Multiparty Computation

September 5, 2019: William Leiserson: Defining Scalable High Performance Programming with DEF

August 15, 2019: John Peebles: Thesis Defense: Fast Spectral Primitives for Directed Graphs

August 9, 2019: Adam Sealfon: Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe: Privacy, Security and Robustness in an Adversariel World

August 6, 2019: Daniel Grier: Complexity Classification Questions at the Quantum/Classical Boundary

August 5, 2019: Luke Schaeffer: Models of Computation Inspired by Near-Term Quantum Devices

 

2018

July 16, 2018:  Prashant Vasudevan: Fine-Grained Cryptography

May 16, 2018:  Justin Holmgren: Securing Computation on Untrusted Platforms

May 7, 2018: Sunoo Park: Cryptography for Societal Benefit

2017

June 28, 2017:  Alex Arkhipov:  Quantum Computation with Identical Bosons

June 29, 2017:  Shalev Ben-David:  Quantum Speedups in Query Complexity

June 30, 2017:  Adam Bouland:  The space around BQP