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Computational Complexity Conference - CCC'19

July 18, 2019 - July 20, 2019

Location:

Rutgers Academic Building, Room 2225

Rutgers University

College Avenue Campus

15 Seminary Place

New Brunswick, NJ

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Organizer(s):

Eric Allender, Rutgers University

Tamra Carpenter, DIMACS

Swastik Kopparty, Rutgers University

Periklis Papakonstantinou, Rutgers University

Mike Saks, Rutgers University

Shubhangi Saraf, Rutgers University

Link to the CCC'19 main page: http://computationalcomplexity.org/

Scope
CCC aims to foster research in all areas of computational complexity theory, studying the absolute and relative power of computational models under resource constraints. Typical models include deterministic, nondeterministic, randomized, and quantum models; uniform and nonuniform models; Boolean, algebraic, and continuous models. Typical resource constraints involve time, space, randomness, program size, input queries, communication, and entanglement; worst-case as well as average case. Other, more specific, topics include: probabilistic and interactive proof systems, inapproximability, proof complexity, descriptive complexity, and complexity-theoretic aspects of cryptography and machine learning. The conference also encourages results from other areas of computer science and mathematics motivated by computational complexity theory.

History
In 1986 the first Structure in Complexity Theory Conference was organized with the support of the US National Science Foundation. As indicated in the call for papers, the conference focused on the global aspects of computational complexity theory and the structural properties of both complexity classes and complexity-bounded reducibilities, and became known as Structures. From 1987 through 2014 the conference was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing. In 1996 the conference broadened its scope to the current one, and accordingly changed its name to Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, abbreviated as CCC. In 2014, after a community-wide discussion and a strong movement towards independence based on a desire for open access to the proceedings, the Computational Complexity Foundation Inc. was established. Starting from 2015 the Foundation organizes the conference independently under the name Computational Complexity Conference, maintaining the acronym CCC.

The list of future and past conferences contains links to the websites for the individual years. Past programs and call for papers (going back to 1997) are also available there.

CCC'19 Program

CCC'19 Proceedings

Videos of CCC'19 invited talks: Ran Raz     Dor Minzer

 

Thursday, July 18, 2019

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Limits on the Universal Method for Matrix Multiplication

Josh Alman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Barriers for Fast Matrix Multiplication from Irreversibility

Matthias Christandl, University of Bath

Péter Vrana, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Jeroen Zuiddan, Institute for Advanced Study

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Fourier and Circulant Matrices are Not Rigid

Zeev Dvir, Princeton University

Allen Liu, University of Michigan

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Typically-Correct Derandomization for Small Time and Space

William Hoza, University of Texas, Austin

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

A Time-Distance Trade-Off for GDD with Preprocessing---Instantiating the DLW Heuristic

Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, New York University (NYU)

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Almost Optimal Distribution-Free Junta Testing

Nader Bshouty, Technion

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Average-Case Quantum Advantage with Shallow Circuits

François Le Gall, Kyoto University

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Universality of EPR Pairs in Entanglement-Assisted Communication Complexity, and the Communication Cost of State Conversion

Matthew Coudron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Complexity Lower Bounds for Computing the Approximately-Commuting Operator Value of Non-Local Games to High Precision

Matthew Coudron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Slofstra, University of Waterloo

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Equality Alone Does not Simulate Randomness

Arkadev Chattopadhyay, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego

Marc Vinyals, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Optimality of Linear Sketching under Modular Updates

Kaave Hosseini, University of California, San Diego

Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego

Grigory Yaroslavtsev, University of Pennsylvania

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Optimal Separation and Strong Direct Sum for Randomized Query Complexity

Eric Blais, Carnegie Mellon University

Joshua Brody, Swarthmore College

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Short Break

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM

Business Meeting

 

Friday, July 19, 2019

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Learning Fast Requires Good Memory: Time-Space Tradeoff Lower Bounds for Learning

Ran Raz, Princeton University

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Near-Optimal Pseudorandom Generators for Constant-Depth Read-Once Formulas

Dean Doron, Tel-Aviv University

Pooya Hatami, University of Chicago

William Hoza, University of Texas, Austin

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Non-Malleable Extractors and Non-Malleable Codes: Partially Optimal Constructions

Xin Li, Duke University

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Fourier Bounds and Pseudorandom Generators for Product Tests

Chin Ho Lee, Northeastern University

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Simple and Efficient Pseudorandom Generators from Gaussian Processes

Eshan Chattopadhyay, Institute for Advanced Study

Anindya De, Northwestern University

Rocco Servedio, Columbia University

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Time-Space Lower Bounds for Two-Pass Learning

Sumegha Garg, Princeton University

Ran Raz, Princeton University

Avishay Tal, Ben Gurion University

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

A Fine-Grained Analogue of Schaefer’s Theorem in P: Dichotomy of Existsk-Forall-Quantified First-Order Graph Properties

Karl Bringmann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Nick Fischer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Marvin Künnemann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Counting Basic-Irreducible Factors Mod pk in deterministic poly-time and p-adic applications

Ashish Dwived, Indian Institute of Technology

Rajat Mittal, Johns Hopkins University

Nitin Saxena, Indian Institute of Technology

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Stronger Connections Between Circuit Analysis and Circuit Lower Bounds, via PCPs of Proximity

Lijie Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ryan Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Relations and Equivalences Between Circuit Lower Bounds and Karp-Lipton Theorems

Lijie Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dylan McKay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cody Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ryan Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Hardness Magnification Near State-of-the-Art Lower Bounds

Igor Carboni Oliveira, University of Oxford

Jan Pich, University of Oxford

Rahul Santhanam, University of Oxford

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Short Break

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM

Rump Session

 

Saturday, July 20, 2019

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Invited Talk: On the NP-Hardness of 2-to-2 Games and Hypercontractivity

Dor Minzer, Institute for Advanced Study

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Sherali-Adams Strikes Back

Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University

Tselil Schramm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Size-Degree Trade-Offs for Sums-of-Squares and Positivstellensatz Proofs

Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Tuomas Hakoniemi, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Resolution and the Binary Encoding of Combinatorial Principles

Stefan Dantchev, Durham University

Nicola Galesi, Sapienza University of Rome

Barnaby Martin, Durham University

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Nullstellensatz Size-Degree Trade-offs from Reversible Pebbling

Susanna F. de Rezende, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Or Meir, University of Haifa

Jakob Nordström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Robert Robere, DIMACS

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

UG-hardness to NP-hardness by Losing Half

Amey Bhangale, Weizmann Institute of Science

Subhash Khot, New York University (NYU)

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Imperfect Gaps in Gap-ETH and PCPs

Mitali Bafna, Harvard University

Nikhil Vyas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Optimal Short-Circuit Resilient Formulas

Mark Braverman, Princeton University

Klim Efremenko, University of California, Berkeley

Ran Gelles, Bar-Ilan University

Michael Yitayew, McGill University

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

From DNF Compression to Sunflower Theorems via Regularity

Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego

Noam Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jiapeng Zhang, University of California, San Diego

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Criticality of Regular Formulas

Benjamin Rossman, University of Toronto

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Parity Helps to Compute Majority

Igor Carboni Oliveira, University of Oxford

Rahul Santhanam, University of Oxford

Srikanth Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology

5:30 PM - 5:35 PM

End of the Conference

 

To register please visit the main CCC'19 page: http://computationalcomplexity.org/

The DIMACS Day of Complexity Tutorials will be held the day before (July 17, 2019) the start of the Conference.
This event is hosted by the Rutgers University Computer Science Department, Rutgers University Computer Science Department Theory of Computing along with DIMACS.


Hotel Information

A block of rooms has been set aside at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick at a special rate of $149.  (Note: Hotel parking is extra.) To make your reservations, please click here: Hyatt Booking Reservations. If you need additional assistance, please contact the Hyatt at 877-803-7534.
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