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Foundations of randomness, Day 3

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Thomas

Last day! Wednesday started with a bang. Yevgeniy Dodis spent the whole Tuesday evening (our workshop dinner at Lanzerac!) complaining that we weren’t leaving him enough time to prepare for his talk…only to spend an equal amount of time during his talk … Continue reading →

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Foundations of randomness, Day 2

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Thomas

Back to the fundamentals of randomness and our workshop in Stellenbosch – I want to discuss the remaining two days of talks! The second day started off with a whirlwind tour of the TCS approach to pseudo-randomness by David Zuckerman. David surveyed … Continue reading →

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The nature of randomness and fundamental physical limits of secrecy

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Thomas

I spent the past five weeks at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), a research institute located in beautiful Stellenbosch, 40km North-West of Cape Town. I was participating in a program (“program” may be an ambitious term for a … Continue reading →

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The Newton Institute

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Thomas

From Charles to Cam Over the summer I crossed the Atlantic, from new Cambridge to old Cambridge, where I am fortunate to be spending the Fall semester as a “visiting fellow” at the Isaac Newton Institute (INI). The INI “runs research programmes on selected themes in … Continue reading →

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