Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Talks by Manindra Agrawal

I don't usually give talk announcements in this web log, but if you are in the Boston area this week you can see Manindra Agrawal give talks about prime numbers and his new algorithm with Kayal and Saxena. This new algorithm, giving the first provably deterministic polynomial-time algorithm to check primality, will go down as one of the classic results in theoretical computer science.

Manindra is giving a non-technical talk on the history of primes at the Clay Mathematics Institute on Wednesday and technical talks on the primality algorithm at MIT on Thursday and Harvard on Friday.

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