Discrete Math/Theory of Computing Seminar

Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J.

Fall 2001

Organizers: Eric Allender and Michael Saks

Other semesters

September 11
        Speaker:    Eric Allender, Rutgers University
        Title:           The circuit complexity of division
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

September 18
        Speaker:    Michael Elkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
        Title:           Construction of (1+epsilon,beta)-Spanners on General Graphs
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

September 25
        Speaker:    Mario Szegedy, Rutgers University
        Title:           Computing boolean functions from multiple faulty copies of input bits
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

October 2
        Speaker:    Ehud Friedgut, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
        Title:           Ramsey properties of random graphs: A sharp thresholds via Szemeredi-regularity in hypergraphs.
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         Hill 705 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)

October 9
        NO SEMINAR: DIMACS Mixer at NEC Research

October 16
        Speaker:    Jozsef Balogh, AT&T Research
        Title:           Monotone Graph Properties
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

October 23
        Speaker:    Alexander Razborov, Institute for Advanced Study and Steklov Math. Institute
        Title:           Proof Complexity of Pigeonhole Principles
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

October 30
        Speaker:    Venkatesh Srinivasan, DIMACS
        Title:           On the advantage of random assignment
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

November 6
        Speaker:    Peter Winkler, Bell Laboratories
        Title:           Incremental Sampling
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         HILL 705 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)

November 13
        Speaker:    David Galvin, Rutgers University
        Title:           Phase transition in the hard-core model on Z^d
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         HILL 705 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)

November 20
        Speaker:    Xiaodong Sun, Rutgers University
        Title:           Space lower bounds for distance approximation in the data stream model
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

November 27
        Speaker:    Rafail Ostrovsky, Telcordia Technologies
        Title:           Dimension reduction in the Hamming cube and its applications
        Time:         4:30-5:30
        Place:         CORE 431

December 4
        NO SEMINAR: DIMACS workshop on Codes and Complexity

Have a nice break!