Title: Poly-logarithmic independence fools AC0 circuits
Speaker: Mark Braverman, Micorsoft Research
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 11:00-12:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Abstract:
We will describe the recent proof of the 1990 Linial-Nisan conjecture. The conjecture states that bounded-depth boolean circuits cannot distinguish poly-logarithmically independent distributions from the uniform one. The talk will be almost completely self-contained.