CS789
Theory Seminar
Fall 2003
Monday, 4:00 p.m., 5130 Upson Hall
| 9/1/003 |
General Discussion About The Theory Seminar |
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| 9/8/003 | Ranjithkumar Rajagopalan, ORIE Cornell University | Langrangian relaxation for the k-median problem: new insights and continuity properties |
| 9/15/2003 | Dexter Kozen, Cornell University | On the Representation of Kleene Algebra with Tests |
| 9/22/03 | Howard Karloff, AT&T Labs | On the Fractal Behavior of TCP |
| 9/29/03 | Retsef Levi, ORIE Cornell University | Improved Approximation Algorithm for The Joint Replenishment Problem |
| 10/6/03 | Ahuva Mu'alem, Hebrew University | Towards a Characterization of Truthful Combinatorial Auctions |
| 10/7/03 (Tuesday) | Enav Weinreb, Ben-Gurion University | The power of monotone span programs over different fields |
| 10/13/03 |
Fall Break, No Theory Seminar Scheduled |
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| 10/20/03 | Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford | The Parisi and Coppersmith-Sorkin Conjectures for the Random Assignment Problem |
| 10/21/03 Tuesday 3-4 pm | Steven Low, Caltech | Fast TCP |
| 10/21/03 Tuesday 4:30-5:30 | Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford | Simple, scalable network algorithms |
| 10/27/03 | Ravi Kumar, IBM Almaden | An information statistics approach to communication complexity and data streams |
| 11/3/03 | Frank J. Oles, IBM Watson | Precedence-Inclusion Patterns and Their Use in Information Extraction from Text |
| 11/10/03 | Aleksandrs Slivkins, Cornell University | Network Failure Detection and Graph Connectivity |
| 11/17/03 | Martin Pál, Cornell University | Approximation Via Cost-Sharing: A Simple Approximation Algorithm for the Multicommodity Rent-or-Buy Problem |
| 11/24/03 | Chaitanya Swamy, Cornell University | Correlation Clustering: Maximizing Agreements via Semidefinite Programming |
| 12/1/2003 | Rann Smorodinsky, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Overcoming Free Riding in Multi-Party Computations - The Anonymous Case |
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Past Theory Seminars |
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