Fall 2002

Monday, 4:00 p.m., 5130 Upson Hall

9/2/02 LABOR DAY - Seminar Cancelled
9/9/02 Anirban Dasgupta, Cornell University, Computer Science On the Semantics of Large Networks
9/16/02 Klara Kedem, Ben Gurion University and Cornell University, Computer Science Shape Matching Algorithms for Proteins: Consensus Structures for Protein Families
9/23/02 Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, Computer Science Primality testing is in P.
9/30/02 Frank McSherry, Microsoft/Cornell University Data Mining via Spectral Analysis
10/7/02 David Kempe, Cornell University, Computer Science Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
10/14/02 FALL BREAK - Seminar Cancelled
10/21/02 Brona Brejova and Tomas Vinar, University of Waterloo, School of Computing Science Several Topics in Gene Finding
10/28/02 Chaitanya Swamy, Cornell University, Computer Science Primal dual algorithms for Connected Facility Location
11/4/02 Amit Kumar, Bell Laboratories A constant-factor approximation algorithm for the multi-commodity rent-or-buy problem
11/11/02 Aaron Archer, Cornell University, Computer Science  Faster Approximation Algorithms for the Minimum Latency Problem
11/18/02 FOCS - Seminar Cancelled
11/25/02 Hubert Chen, Cornell University, Computer Science  Inverse NP Problems: Witnesses in Search of a Crime
12/2/02 Seminar cancelled due to Fulkerson lecture by Frank Kelly.