Slide 1Has There Been Progress on the P vs. NP Question? Scott Aaronson (MIT) Slide 2 P vs. NP: I Assume Youve Heard of It Frank Wilczek (Physics Nobel 2004) was recently…

Slide 1NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality Scott Aaronson Institute for Advanced Study Slide 2 What could we do if we could solve NP-complete problems? Proof of Riemann…

Slide 1NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality Scott Aaronson UC Berkeley IAS Slide 2 Problem: Given a graph, is it connected? Each particular graph is an instance The…

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Slide 1BQP PSPACE NP P PostBQP Limits on Efficient Computation in the Physical World Scott Aaronson MIT Slide 2 Things we never see… Warp drive Perpetuum mobile GOLDBACH…

Slide 1BQP PSPACE NP P PostBQP Computational Intractability As A Law of Physics Scott Aaronson University of Waterloo Slide 2 Things we never see… Warp drive Perpetuum…

Slide 1Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable Scott Aaronson MIT Slide 2 Things we never see… Warp drive Perpetuum mobile GOLDBACH CONJECTURE: TRUE…

Slide 1Iterative Rounding and Iterative Relaxation Some of the slides prepared by Lap Chi Lau Slide 2 Steiner Network A graph G = (V,E); A connectivity requirement r(u,v)…

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1. Routing Routing Problem Routing Regions Types of Routing-Global Routing-Detailed Routing Conclusion References2. o The routing is to locate a set of…