The SACT Seminar is held weekly: this year (2025), the seminar takes place on Wednesdays, 12:30pm to 2:00pm, in the boardroom (Room 124) of the School of Computer Science Building (J12). (Food is served at 12:30pm; talks at 1pm.) If you are interested in giving a seminar, please contact Zijin Huang.
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12/02/2025 | Siu-Wing Cheng (HKUST) | Fréchet Distance in Subquadratic Time |
| 26/02/2025 | Clément Canonne | The Randomness Complexity of Differential Privacy |
| 12/03/2025 | Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland) | Open questions about group actions in cryptography |
| 26/03/2025 | Sam Sutherland | Tensor Networks and Their Use In Quantum Computing |
| 09/04/2025 | Eduardo Velloso | Algorithmic puzzles from HCI research |
| 30/04/2025 | Joachim Gudmundsson | Realistic input assumptions for geometric graphs |
| 07/05/2025 | Daniel Tubbenhauer | How good are (quantum) knot invariants? |
| 09/05/2025 | Peaker Guo | Algorithms and Combinatorics of String Net Frequency |
| 28/05/2025 3-4pm | Hakop Pashayan | Classical simulation of noisy quantum circuits via locally entanglement-optimal unravelings |
| 11/06/2025 | Abigail Gentle | Algorithms and Theory for Distributed Private Statistics |
| 18/06/2025 | Lindsey Deryckere | Efficiently Approximating Distances in c-packed Graphs |
| 06/08/2025 | Frédéric Magniez | Two applications of Grover Search for Quantum Distributed Computing |
| 03/09/2025 | Sam Polgar | An introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs - theoretical concepts and practical applications in privacy-preserving digital identity systems |
| 10/09/2025 | TBD | TBD |
| 17/09/2025 | Shuei Sakaguchi | TBD |
| 24/09/2025 | Mook Kwon Jung | TBD |
| 01/10/2025 | Mid-semester Break | |
| 08/10/2025 | Aravind Thyagarajan | TBD |
| 22/10/2025 | David Harvey | TBD |
| 29/10/2025 | TBD | TBD |
| 05/11/2025 | Zijin Huang | TBD |
| 12/11/2025 | TBD | TBD |