Ján Pich

Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford
jan.pich@cs.ox.ac.uk

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Area: Mathematical Logic & Complexity Theory

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Papers:

Towards P≠NP from Extended Frege lower bounds, with Rahul Santhanam, Dec 2023.

Localizability of the approximation method, Dec 2022.

Learning algorithms versus automatability of Frege systems, with Rahul Santhanam, Oct 2021.

Learning algorithms from circuit lower bounds, Nov 2020.

Strong co-nondeterministic lower bounds for NP cannot be proved feasibly, with Rahul Santhanam, STOC 2021.

Beyond natural proofs: hardness magnification and locality, with L.Chen, S.Hirahara, I.C.Oliveira, N.Rajgopal and R.Santhanam, JACM'22, Nov 2019.

Why are proof complexity lower bounds hard? with Rahul Santhanam, FOCS 2019.

Hardness magnification near state-of-the-art lower bounds, with Igor C.Oliveira and Rahul Santhanam, CCC'19, preprint: Sep 2018. [slides]

Feasibly constructive proofs of succinct weak circuit lower bounds, with Moritz Müller, APAL'19, different version: Sep 2017. [slides]

Understanding Gentzen and Frege systems for QBF, with Olaf Beyersdorff, LICS 2016.

+ publications from 2009-2014           + all publications

Poetry: Mathesis universalis, Literis, 2016, preprint: Dec 2015.