Abstract: We tend to think of communication in terms of the passing of information.  When we say something to someone, we change their knowledge state as well as their beliefs.

Abstract: Forward markets allow buyers and sellers of resources like network bandwidth or power to plan their consumption and production respectively.

Abstract: In this talk, we consider the problem of finding a given number of "healthy" items from a large population containing a small number of "defective" items using nonadaptive group testing.

Abstract: We define and examine the power of the conditional-sampling oracle in the context of distribution-property testing.