Notes from papers I am reading, and mini-surveys of themes I'm learning about.https://research.neeldhara.blog/https://research.neeldhara.blog/crypto-intro/https://research.neeldhara.blog/crypto-intro/Caution Background This post is based on a series of lectures that Venkata Koppula gave at IIT Gandhiangar during the inter-IIT sports meet. Lecture 1: How to define security? N...Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://research.neeldhara.blog/kidney-exchanges/https://research.neeldhara.blog/kidney-exchanges/This post is based on an excellent (chalk and board!) talk that Palash Dey gave at IIT Gandhinagar today. This is his joint work with Arnab Maiti, to appear as an extended abstr...Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://research.neeldhara.blog/cp/sam-i-am/https://research.neeldhara.blog/cp/sam-i-am/This is mostly about solving Sam I Am (UVa 11419); en route, we will end up discovering Kőnig's theorem, which is a delightful fact about the special relationship shared by vert...Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://research.neeldhara.blog/homework-help/https://research.neeldhara.blog/homework-help/Note This post is based on an expository explanation of iterative compression that I attempted at the Institute Seminar Week in 2010, at IMSc. Tapesh has been struggling lately...Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT