Anna Blasiak
I am a third year PhD student at Cornell University.
I obtained a B.A. with majors in Mathematics and Computer Science from Middlebury College in 2007.
In the Spring of 2006 I studied abroad in Budapest, Hungary with the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics.
Contact
| a b l a s i a k | |
| @cs.cornell.edu | |
| Office | 4143 Upson Hall |
| Phone | (607) 255 - 3009 (Office) |
| (301) 775 - 4570 (Mobile) | |
| Address | 103 Giles Street |
| Ithaca, NY 14850 |
Research Interests
I am currently working in the area of network coding with Bobby Kleinberg.
Other research interests include graph algorithms and optimization problems.
Publications
| 2010 | Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Minimum Latency Problem via Prize-Collecting Strolls. A. Archer, A. Blasiak. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), January 17-19 2010. |
| 2008 | Degree Sum Conditions in Graph Pebbling. A. Blasiak, J. Schmitt. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 42 (2008), 83-90. |
| 2008 | Spectra of Self-Similar Laplacians on the Sierpinski Gasket with Twists. A. Blasiak, R. S. Strichartz, B. E. Ugurcan. In Fractals March 2008. |
Theses
| 2007 | Graph Pebbling. Bachelor's thesis in mathematics with advisor John Schmitt. |
| 2007 | A Comparison of Image Segmentation Methods. Bachelor's thesis in computer science with advisor Daniel Scharstein. |
Random
| Second Year Skit Lyrics |
| Middlebury NSF fellowship winners |
| Scholar Athlete Award |
| Website from fractal research |
| Programming Contest |
| My Sudoku Solver |