A1* Communication Complexity

The IT University of Copenhagen

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Format

Time and place

Getting there from Lund

From Lund, you need a Öresundstrafiken ticket for the same zone as Hellerup (so you buy a ticket to Hellerup). The trip takes little under 90 minutes, here is a good schedule:
7.42Lund CNørreport (Öresundståg 1027, eta 8.44)
8.50Nørreport st/VendersgadeNørrebro (Bus 16, eta 9.00)

Lecturer

Thore Husfeldt, Lund University.

Language

Assuming that some Swedish students will attend the course, all lectures will be in English (otherwise in Danish). You can ask questions and hand in exercises in English, Danish, or Swedish (or even German, if you want).

Materials

Text book

Eyal Kushilevitz and Noam Nisan, Communication complexity. Cambridge University Press 1996. ISBN 0-521-56067-5. Eyal maintains a web page of Errors and typos.

Additional lecture notes, exercises, and articles

forthcoming

Recommended reading

Juraj Hromkovic, Communication complexity and parallel computing. Springer 1997. ISBN 3-540-57459-X