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The First Summer School on Theoretical Aspects on Computer Science was held
at the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) from
July 3-10, 2000.
The idea of organizing a summer school was originated during a conversation
between the first and the second editor of this volume in the winter of 2000 at
IPM in Tehran. The decision was formalized when the third editor visited IPM
later in the winter.
The main idea behind the Summer School was to introduce to the students
in Iran some of the highly innovative and promising research in Theoretical
Computer Science, and, at the same time, to start a flow of ideas between top
researchers in the field and the Iranian scientists. For this reason, the talks were
designed to be of a tutorial style.
The organizers decided to concentrate on a few important areas of research
in modern Theoretical Computer Science. To attract students to this important
area, they also decided to include talks on applications of methods from
Theoretical Computer Science to other areas.
This volume contains the written contributions to the program of this Summer
School. It is intended for students and researchers who want to gain acquaintance
with certain topics in Theoretical Computer Science. The papers on
quantum computation, approximation algorithms, self-testing/correcting, algebraic
modeling of data, and the Regularity Lemma correspond to the former
category, while connections between multiple access communication and combinatorial
designs, graph-theoretical methods in computer vision, and low-density
parity-check codes belong to the latter category.
Each contribution to this volume was presented in a two hour session, leaving
ample time for questions and discussions. The tutorials were followed by a
number of specialized talks touching on current research problems in the area.
Parts of the talks have been incorporated into the material of the contributions. |