ARC Colloquium: Amin Coja-Oghlan (Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Algorithms & Randomness Center (ARC)

Amin Coja-Oghlan (Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Monday, April 12, 2021

Virtual via Bluejeans - 11:00 am

 

Title:  Group Testing

Abstract:  In the group testing problem the goal is to identify a small number of infected individuals within a large population by conducting as small a number of tests as possible. The tests are assumed to accept pools of individuals rather than just single individuals, with a test returning a positive result iff at least one individual in the pool is actually infected. Mathematically we ask for information-theoretic lower bounds showing that a certain number of tests is necessary to correctly learn the set of infected individuals as well as algorithmic upper bounds showing that a certain number of tests suffice. In this talk I am going to present some mathematical results, some experimental results and some open problems.

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Event Details

Date/Time:

  • Monday, April 12, 2021
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm