Anna Blasiak

Anna

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

Email 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.

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