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Talk by Marco Tomamichel
by Stefan Wolf 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi, This week's seminar talk is by Marco Tomamichel. It will take place this Thursday, 27.5., 17:15 at HIT K 51. Title and Abstract are given below. Best regards, Stefan ____________________________________________________________ Randomness Extraction Revisited I will talk about some recent work on randomness extraction. We show that it is possible to extract randomness using almost two-universal families of functions and that the amount of extractable randomness can be tightly characterized by the smooth min-entropy. This is an extension of a well-known result by Renato, who already showed it for two-universal families. I do not intend to bother you with the technicalities that distinguish the two proofs though, instead, I will try to keep everything at an introductory level.

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Talks next week
by Stefan Wolf 18 May '10

18 May '10

Good afternoon, This week, we have no group seminar talk. The last one scheduled for this semester is by Ligong Wang on the 27; details follow later. Note also that on Wednesday of next week, there is a presentation by Reinhard Werner from Hannover, at 16:45 in HPV G4. Cheers, Stefan

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Seminar this week: Cancelled
by Frédéric Dupuis 04 May '10

04 May '10

Grüezi mitenand, Unfortunately, there will be no group seminar this week. However, those of you who wish to avoid withdrawal syndrome are highly encouraged to attend the QSIT lunch seminar on Thursday featuring Johan Aaberg. There's a rumor that he might shout at the audience again. Cheers, --Frédéric

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