| Winter '22 |
Cryptographic Protocols
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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| Fall '21 |
Cellular Neurophysiology
- Membrane potentials and ion pumps
- electrical signaling and action potentials
- voltage-gated ion channels
- dendritic computation
- synaptic transmission
- metabotropic receptors and second messengers
- sensory transduction
- synaptic plasticity
- glial cells
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Foundations of Cryptography
- One-way functions and hard-core bits
- pseudorandomness
- digital signatures and hash functions
- public-key encryption
- zero-knowledge proofs
- multiparty computation and secret sharing
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| Spring '21 |
Neural Signal Processing
- Fundamental electrical properties of neurons
- technology for measuring neural activity
- Poisson processes
- discrete classification
- graphical models
- continuous decoding
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| Winter '21 |
Great Theory Hits of the 21st Century
- Undirected connectivity in logspace and expander graphs
- graph sparsification and interlacing polynomials
- extended formulations and communication complexity
- improved bounds on the sunflower conjecture
- sensitivity conjecture
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