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Each class member should choose a time in the following schedule after they have an approved topic chosen.  Talk times should be 30-35 minutes.  You may use the whiteboard or a computer projector for given your talk.

Schedule of Presentations

Date First Presenter Second Presenter
11/17 Chris Shiv
11/22 Loren Raj
11/24 Thanksgiving, no class
11/29 Arun Alok
12/1 Shen Sam
12/6 Brian Tom
12/8 Final course review / final exam handed out  

Papers

Chris - David Deutsch, Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer

Shiv - Samuel J. Lomonaco, Jr., A Quick Glance at Quantum Cryptography

Loren - Calude and P˘aun, Bio-steps beyond Turing

Raj - Yao-Ting Huang, Kun-Mao Chao and Ting Chen, An Approximation Algorithm for Haplotype Inference by Maximum Parsimony

Arun - Decidability of Logical Theories (Section 6.2 in the textbook)

Alok - Paul Wilhelm, Karl Rothemund, A DNA and restriction enzyme implementation of Turing MachinesRichard Beigel, Bin Fu, Solving Intractable Problems with DNA Computing.

Shen - Toby Ord, Hypercomputation: computing more than the Turing machine

Sam - Grinstein, Can complex structures be generically stable in a noisy world?  Link to presentation.

Brian - Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu, Finding Collisions in the Full SHA-1

Tom - Giorgi Japaridze, Computability logic: a formal theory of interaction