Mohammad Mahmoody Ghidary will present his FPO on Wednesday August 25 at 2PM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Boaz Barak, advisor; Bernard Chazelle and Russell Impagliazzo (IAS and UCSD), readers; Sanjeev Arora and Moses Charikar, nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Studies in the Efficiency and (versus) Security of Cryptographic Tasks", is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.