ANNOUNCEMENT: On Monday 05/04 the seminar will be held from 9:45 am -11:00 am in room SEC 1.307.
Overview: This is a seminar-style course, aimed at preparing students to engage in and benefit from the Fall 2026 program on Pseudorandomness and High-Dimensional Expansion to be held at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. The focus will be on reading, presenting, and brainstorming about recent research papers in these fields, as well as acquiring any background needed to do so.
Guidelines for Presenting Papers
Ed
Perusall (Canvas link for enrolled students; we will invite auditors after they fill out the survey)
First-class Survey (fill out even if you can't make it on 1/26)