October 29, 2025, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Location:
Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor
Rutgers University
Hill Center
Mathematics Department
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Vikrant Ashvinkumar, Rutgers University
Finding hay in a haystack can be surprisingly difficult when no one can agree which hay is the right hay. Parallel algorithms are often better at finding a needle in a haystack, and I’ll show you an example or two of this phenomenon.