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For this pre-Independence Day post Bill suggested I write about the math knowledge of our founding fathers or how "P=NP" will declare itself independent of ZFC. Luckily FOCS announced the accepted papers so I can talk about that instead. First the lists.


PC Chair Dan Spielman discusses the review process though he doesn't talk about the usefulness of the 2-page addendum or the criteria used to choose the papers, which seems to have tended again towards the technical.

Here are a few of the many interesting looking papers that caught my eye.

  • David Doty. Randomized Self-Assembly for Exact Shapes
    • You just don't see many STOC/FOCS papers on self-assembly or from Iowa State.
  • Ilias Diakonikolas, Parikshit Gopalan, Ragesh Jaiswal, Rocco Servedio and Emanuele Viola. Bounded Independence Fools Halfspaces
    • I like results that just sound neat and can be fully stated in the title.
  • Zeev Dvir, Swastik Kopparty, Shubhangi Saraf and Madhu Sudan. Extensions to the Method of Multiplicities, with applications to Kakeya sets and Mergers
    • And better randomness extractors too.
  • Or Meir. Combinatorial PCPs with efficient verifiers
    • Sounds interesting and the only FOCS paper that cites one of my papers in the abstract.
  • Rahul Jain, Sarvagya Upadhyay and John Watrous. Two-message quantum interactive proofs are in PSPACE
    • QIP is known to sit in between PSPACE and EXP and it's an interesting open question which way it goes. This paper makes some progress in resolving that.
  • Neeraj Kayal and Shubhangi Saraf. Blackbox Polynomial Identity Testing for Depth 3 Circuit
    • Makes progress on deterministic polynomial identity testing, one of the few remaining probabilistic algorithms to derandomize.
  • Ravindran Kannan. A new probability inequality using typical moments and concentration results
    • Looks like something we will all need to add to our toolboxes. The accepted papers list dropped the word "inequality" which made the paper seem unreal.
  • Alexander Sherstov. The Intersection of Two Halfspaces Has High Threshold Degree
    • An exciting result in its own right. The Complexity class analogue goes the other way: Beigel, Reingold and Spielman showed the class PP is closed under intersections.



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