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Theory Seminar: Fernando Granha Jeronimo, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Expanders in Coding Theory"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Michael A. Forbes
Location
Siebel 3401
Date
Mar 10, 2025   11:00 am  
Speaker
Fernando Granha Jeronimo
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Theory Seminar: Please join us on March 10th at 11am in Siebel 3401 where Fernando Granha Jeronimo will give a talk, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Expanders in Coding Theory”. Please see the abstract below:

The probabilistic method is commonly used as a yardstick to establish the existence of codes exhibiting optimal properties.  However, explicit constructions are typically needed to be able to use these codes, but these purely existential methods often give us no clue on how to do so, and progress can take decades to come.  In this talk, I will discuss how expander graphs can be incredibly effective in designing explicit codes achieving close to optimal (list) decoding properties, giving us the first explicit examples only previously known to exist.

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