Title: Two Needles in Exponential Haystacks
Speaker: Joel Spencer, Courant Institute
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:00pm
Location: Hill Center, Room 425, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
When the probabilistic method sieves an event with exponentially small probability the usual randomized algorithms will not find an actualization. We discuss two recent startling successes: Moser et.al. on the Lovasz Local Lemma and Bansal on the speaker's ``Six Standard Deviations Suffice."
See: http://math.rutgers.edu/seminars/allseminars.php?sem_name=Discrete%20Math