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Tyson Williams

Tyson Williams

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Tyson Williams Pronounce Tyson Williams
Ph.D. Student
Theoretical Computer Science
Office: 4397
Email Address of Tyson Williams

Department of Computer Science
University of Wisconsin
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706

Welcome

Hello. I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in theoretical computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am grateful to be advised by Jin-Yi Cai. My undergraduate education was at Iowa State University, where I received BS degrees in computer science and computer engineering.

Research Interests

I am interested in the complexity of counting problems, especially ones in the Holant framework, where there are holographic algorithms. A central goal in this area is to prove dichotomy theorems, which say that every problem in some large class is either tractable or #P-hard.

Publications

  1. The Complexity of Planar Boolean #CSP with Complex Weights [conference (unofficial), arXiv]
    Joint work with Heng Guo
    ICALP 2013, to appear

  2. A Complete Dichotomy Rises from the Capture of Vanishing Signatures [conference, arXiv]
    Joint work with Jin-Yi Cai and Heng Guo
    STOC 2013, to appear

  3. Gadgets and Anti-Gadgets Leading to a Complexity Dichotomy [conference, arXiv]
    Joint work with Jin-Yi Cai and Michael Kowalczyk
    ITCS 2012

Curriculum Vitae

Here is my CV.

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