Isolating Solutions

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.