41. STOC 2009: Bethesda, MD, USA
Michael Mitzenmacher (Ed.): Proceedings of the 41st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2009, Bethesda, MD, USA, May 31 - June 2, 2009. ACM 2009 ISBN 978-1-60558-506-2
Avi Wigderson: The work of Leslie Valiant. 1-2
Codes
Sanjeev Arora, Constantinos Daskalakis, David Steurer: Message passing algorithms and improved LP decoding. 3-12
Parikshit Gopalan, Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra: List decoding tensor products and interleaved codes. 13-22
Venkatesan Guruswami: Artin automorphisms, cyclotomic function fields, and folded list-decodable codes. 23-32
Qi Cheng, Daqing Wan: A deterministic reduction for the gap minimum distance problem: [extended abstract]. 33-38
Klim Efremenko: 3-query locally decodable codes of subexponential length. 39-44
Complexity I
Linda Sellie: Exact learning of random DNF over the uniform distribution. 45-54


Eli Gafni: The extended BG-simulation and the characterization of t-resiliency. 85-92
Algorithms and data structures
Jean Cardinal, Samuel Fiorini, Gwenaël Joret, Raphael M. Jungers, J. Ian Munro: An efficient algorithm for partial order production. 93-100
Aaron Bernstein, David R. Karger: A nearly optimal oracle for avoiding failed vertices and edges. 101-110

Property testing
Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets, Avi Wigderson: New direct-product testers and 2-query PCPs. 131-140
Eric Blais: Testing juntas nearly optimally. 151-158
Asaf Shapira: Green's conjecture and testing linear-invariant properties. 159-166
Shafi Goldwasser: Athena lecture: Controlling Access to Programs? 167-168
Crypto I
Craig Gentry: Fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices. 169-178
Huijia Lin, Rafael Pass, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam: A unified framework for concurrent security: universal composability from stand-alone non-malleability. 179-188
Approx algorithms I


Nam H. Nguyen, Thong T. Do, Trac D. Tran: A fast and efficient algorithm for low-rank approximation of a matrix. 215-224
Yuichi Yoshida, Masaki Yamamoto, Hiro Ito: An improved constant-time approximation algorithm for maximum~matchings. 225-234
Graphs cuts and flows



Luca Trevisan: Max cut and the smallest eigenvalue. 263-272
Optimization
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makarychev: Integrality gaps for Sherali-Adams relaxations. 283-292
Madhur Tulsiani: CSP gaps and reductions in the lasserre hierarchy. 303-312
Marek Karpinski, Warren Schudy: Linear time approximation schemes for the Gale-Berlekamp game and related minimization problems. 313-322
Jon Lee, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Viswanath Nagarajan, Maxim Sviridenko: Non-monotone submodular maximization under matroid and knapsack constraints. 323-332
Award papers
Chris Peikert: Public-key cryptosystems from the worst-case shortest vector problem: extended abstract. 333-342
Robin A. Moser: A constructive proof of the Lovász local lemma. 343-350
Privacy
Arpita Ghosh, Tim Roughgarden, Mukund Sundararajan: Universally utility-maximizing privacy mechanisms. 351-360

Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Omer Reingold, Guy N. Rothblum, Salil P. Vadhan: On the complexity of differentially private data release: efficient algorithms and hardness results. 381-390
Quantum
Yi-Kai Liu: Quantum algorithms using the curvelet transform. 391-400
Amnon Ta-Shma: Short seed extractors against quantum storage. 401-408
Richard Cleve, Daniel Gottesman, Michele Mosca, Rolando D. Somma, David L. Yonge-Mallo: Efficient discrete-time simulations of continuous-time quantum query algorithms. 409-416
Dorit Aharonov, Itai Arad, Zeph Landau, Umesh V. Vazirani: The detectability lemma and quantum gap amplification. 417-426
Graphs

Shiri Chechik, Michael Langberg, David Peleg, Liam Roditty: Fault-tolerant spanners for general graphs. 435-444

Complexity II

Emanuele Viola: Bit-probe lower bounds for succinct data structures. 475-482

Economics

Tim Roughgarden: Intrinsic robustness of the price of anarchy. 513-522
Eyal Even-Dar, Yishay Mansour, Uri Nadav: On the convergence of regret minimization dynamics in concave games. 523-532
Robert Kleinberg, Georgios Piliouras, Éva Tardos: Multiplicative updates outperform generic no-regret learning in congestion games: extended abstract. 533-542
MohammadHossein Bateni, Moses Charikar, Venkatesan Guruswami: MaxMin allocation via degree lower-bounded arborescences. 543-552
Markov chains

Ravi Kannan, Hariharan Narayanan: Random walks on polytopes and an affine interior point method for linear programming. 561-570
Allan Sly: Reconstruction for the Potts model. 581-590
Martin Dietzfelbinger, Philipp Woelfel: Tight lower bounds for greedy routing in uniform small world rings. 591-600
Crypto II
Yevgeniy Dodis, Daniel Wichs: Non-malleable extractors and symmetric key cryptography from weak secrets. 601-610

Geometry
Jérémie Chalopin, Daniel Gonçalves: Every planar graph is the intersection graph of segments in the plane: extended abstract. 631-638
Boris Aronov, Esther Ezra, Micha Sharir: Small-size epsilon-nets for axis-parallel rectangles and boxes. 639-648
Yuval Rabani, Amir Shpilka: Explicit construction of a small epsilon-net for linear threshold functions. 649-658
Approximation algorithms II


Jivitej S. Chadha, Naveen Garg, Amit Kumar, V. N. Muralidhara: A competitive algorithm for minimizing weighted flow time on unrelatedmachines with speed augmentation. 679-684
Anupam Gupta, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, R. Ravi: Online and stochastic survivable network design. 685-694
Complexity III
Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets, Antonina Kolokolova: An axiomatic approach to algebrization. 695-704





