37. STOC 2005: Baltimore, MD, USA
Harold N. Gabow, Ronald Fagin (Eds.): Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 22-24, 2005. ACM 2005 ISBN 1-58113-960-8
Session 1A
Boaz Barak, Guy Kindler, Ronen Shaltiel, Benny Sudakov, Avi Wigderson: Simulating independence: new constructions of condensers, ramsey graphs, dispersers, and extractors. 1-10
Ran Raz: Extractors with weak random seeds. 11-20
Andrej Bogdanov: Pseudorandom generators for low degree polynomials. 21-30
Luca Trevisan: On uniform amplification of hardness in NP. 31-38
Session 1B
Patrick Briest, Piotr Krysta, Berthold Vöcking: Approximation techniques for utilitarian mechanism design. 39-48
Christos H. Papadimitriou: Computing correlated equilibria in multi-player games. 49-56

Bruno Codenotti, Benton McCune, Kasturi R. Varadarajan: Market equilibrium via the excess demand function. 74-83
Session 2A
Oded Regev: On lattices, learning with errors, random linear codes, and cryptography. 84-93
Miklós Ajtai: Representing hard lattices with O(n log n) bits. 94-103
Session 2B
Christian Worm Mortensen, Rasmus Pagh, Mihai Patrascu: On dynamic range reporting in one dimension. 104-111
Mikkel Thorup: Worst-case update times for fully-dynamic all-pairs shortest paths. 112-119
Keynote
Lance Fortnow: Beyond NP: the work and legacy of Larry Stockmeyer. 120-127
Session 4A
Session 4B
Joseph Cheriyan, Adrian Vetta: Approximation algorithms for network design with metric costs. 167-175
Moses Charikar, Adriana Karagiozova: On non-uniform multicommodity buy-at-bulk network design. 176-182
Chandra Chekuri, Sanjeev Khanna, F. Bruce Shepherd: Multicommodity flow, well-linked terminals, and routing problems. 183-192
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Jeong Han Kim, Tom Leighton, Harald Räcke: Oblivious routing in directed graphs with random demands. 193-201
Session 5A
Piotr Indyk, David P. Woodruff: Optimal approximations of the frequency moments of data streams. 202-208

Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasios Sidiropoulos: Low-distortion embeddings of general metrics into the line. 225-233
Session 5B
Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Thomas Colcombet: Tree-walking automata do not recognize all regular languages. 234-243
Itai Benjamini, Oded Schramm, David Bruce Wilson: Balanced boolean functions that can be evaluated so that every input bit is unlikely to be read. 244-250
Michael Alekhnovich: Lower bounds for k-DNF resolution on random 3-CNFs. 251-256
Michal Koucký, Pavel Pudlák, Denis Thérien: Bounded-depth circuits: separating wires from gates. 257-265
Session 6A



Michael Alekhnovich, Sanjeev Arora, Iannis Tourlakis: Towards strong nonapproximability results in the Lovasz-Schrijver hierarchy. 294-303
Session 6B
Saugata Basu, Richard Pollack, Marie-Françoise Roy: Computing the first Betti number and the connected components of semi-algebraic sets. 304-312
Saugata Basu: Polynomial time algorithm for computing the top Betti numbers of semi-algebraic sets defined by quadratic inequalities. 313-322

Session 7A
Session 7B
Best Paper
Omer Reingold: Undirected ST-connectivity in log-space. 376-385
Session 9A
Lujun Jia, Guolong Lin, Guevara Noubir, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Ravi Sundaram: Universal approximations for TSP, Steiner tree, and set cover. 386-395
Naveen Garg: Saving an epsilon: a 2-approximation for the k-MST problem in graphs. 396-402
Ben Morris: The mixing time of the Thorp shuffle. 403-412
Mary Cryan, Martin E. Dyer, Dana Randall: Approximately counting integral flows and cell-bounded contingency tables. 413-422
Session 9B
Van H. Vu: Spectral norm of random matrices. 423-430
Abraham Flaxman, Alan M. Frieze, Juan Carlos Vera: On the average case performance of some greedy approximation algorithms for the uncapacitated facility location problem. 441-449
Micah Adler, Jeff Edmonds, Jirí Matousek: Towards asymptotic optimality in probabilistic packet marking. 450-459
Session 10A
Yaoyun Shi: Tensor norms and the classical communication complexity of nonlocal quantum measurement. 460-467
Sean Hallgren: Fast quantum algorithms for computing the unit group and class group of a number field. 468-474
Arthur Schmidt, Ulrich Vollmer: Polynomial time quantum algorithm for the computation of the unit group of a number field. 475-480
Session 10B

Michael Elkin, Yuval Emek, Daniel A. Spielman, Shang-Hua Teng: Lower-stretch spanning trees. 494-503
Daniel Gonçalves: Edge partition of planar sraphs into two outerplanar graphs. 504-512
Session 11A

Hoeteck Wee: On obfuscating point functions. 523-532
Rafael Pass, Alon Rosen: New and improved constructions of non-malleable cryptographic protocols. 533-542
Session 11B

Uriel Feige, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, James R. Lee: Improved approximation algorithms for minimum-weight vertex separators. 563-572
Amit Agarwal, Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makarychev: O(sqrt(log n)) approximation algorithms for min UnCut, min 2CNF deletion, and directed cut problems. 573-581
Session 12A
Zeev Dvir, Amir Shpilka: Locally decodable codes with 2 queries and polynomial identity testing for depth 3 circuits. 592-601
Session 12B
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan, Michael Schapira: Approximation algorithms for combinatorial auctions with complement-free bidders. 610-618
Gagan Aggarwal, Amos Fiat, Andrew V. Goldberg, Jason D. Hartline, Nicole Immorlica, Madhu Sudan: Derandomization of auctions. 619-625
Best Student Paper
Vladimir Trifonov: An O(log n log log n) space algorithm for undirected st-connectivity. 626-633
Session 14A
Scott Aaronson: The complexity of agreement. 634-643
Yael Tauman Kalai, Yehuda Lindell, Manoj Prabhakaran: Concurrent general composition of secure protocols in the timing model. 644-653
Thomas Holenstein: Key agreement from weak bit agreement. 664-673
Session 14B

Nir Ailon, Moses Charikar, Alantha Newman: Aggregating inconsistent information: ranking and clustering. 684-693
Dimitris Achlioptas, Aaron Clauset, David Kempe, Cristopher Moore: On the bias of traceroute sampling: or, power-law degree distributions in regular graphs. 694-703
Christian Scheideler: How to spread adversarial nodes?: rotate! 704-713
Session 15A
Eli Gafni, Rachid Guerraoui, Bastian Pochon: From a static impossibility to an adaptive lower bound: the complexity of early deciding set agreement. 714-722
Prasad Jayanti: An optimal multi-writer snapshot algorithm. 723-732
Session 15B
Johan Håstad: Every 2-CSP allows nontrivial approximation. 740-746
Wenceslas Fernandez de la Vega, Marek Karpinski, Ravi Kannan, Santosh Vempala: Tensor decomposition and approximation schemes for constraint satisfaction problems. 747-754



