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name: Baczowski-ITCS-information-dissemination
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[[https://sites.google.com/view/lboczko/home|Lucas Boczkowski]] and [[https://amoskorman.com/|Amos Korman]] 
from IRIF, with their co-authors, will present at 
ITCS 2018
a non-conditional lower bound on **information dissemination in stochastic populations**. 
The paper is the first ever to combine an algorithmic lower bound with a biology experiment in collective behavior.