| 1/26/2004 | No Seminar | 
  
    | 2/2/2004 | Yuval Rabani, Technion and Cornell | Low Distortion Maps
      Between Point Sets | 
  
    | 2/9/2004 | Jason Hartline, Microsoft Research | On Seller Optimal Envy-Free Pricing | 
  
    | 2/16/2004 | Allan Borodin, University of Toronto | A
      Model for Backtracking (And
      Other Thoughts on a Theory of Algorithms) | 
  
    | 2/23/2004 | Carmel Domshlak, Cornell University | Schema Meta-matching | 
  
    | 3/1/2004 | Martin Pal, Cornell | Boosted Sampling: Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization | 
  
    | 3/8/2004 | no seminar this week |  | 
  
    | 3/15/2004 | Adam Klivans, Harvard | Learning
      Polynomials with Many Coefficients | 
  
    | 3/22/2004 | Spring Break - No Seminar | 
  
    | 3/29/2004 | PhD visit day - No
      Seminar | 
  
    | 4/5/2004 | Joe Halpern, Cornell University | Rational
      Secret Sharing and Multiparty Computation | 
  
    | 4/12/2004 | Shuchi
      Chawla, CMU | Approximation
      Algorithms for Path-Planning Problems | 
  
    | 4/19/2004 | Bobby Kleinberg | The
      Value of Knowing a Demand Curve:  Bounds on Regret for Online
      Posted-Price Auctions | 
  
    | 4/26/2004 | Philip Klein, Brown | Multiple-source
      shortest paths in planar graphs in O(n log n) time | 
  
    | 5/3/2004 | Mark Sandler, Cornell | Using
      Mixture Models for Collaborative Filtering. | 
  
    | 5/10/2004 | Alexa Sharp, Cornell | tba |