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9 - 15 February, 2 0 0 4

Feb 11, Wednesday
Wean Hall, 7220
noon-1:00pm

Ke Yang
Fair Computation

Feb 12, Thursday
DH 1117
12:30 PM

David Galvin, Microsoft Research Group
The "Entropy Method" in Combinatorics

Feb 12, Thursday
Wean Hall, 7500
4:00 PM

Henrik I. Christensen
Director, Centre for Autonomous Systems (CVAP/NADA) and Chaired Professor, Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
The Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics (abs)
Feb 13, Friday
Wean Hall 4623
10:30 AM
Pavel Pevzner
Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego
Transforming Men into Mice: Lessons from Human and Mouse Genomic Sequences (abs)
Feb 13, Friday
Wean Hall, 7220
3:30 PM (45 minutes)
Eran Halperin
Visiting Post-doc from Princeton
Tight lower bounds for the asymmetric k-center problem
ALADDIN/Theory Seminar
Danny Sleator
Feb 13, Friday
Wean Hall, 7500
4:30 PM
Noga Alon
Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics (abs)
Math Colloquium
(Alan Frieze)
 
16 - 22 February, 2 0 0 4
Feb 17, Tuesday
Newell Simon 3305,
12:00
Adi Shamir
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science and Chief Technical Advisor, CYOTA
Hardware Based Implementations of Factoring Algorithms (abs)
Feb 17, Tuesday
Wean Hall, 7500
4:00 PM
Adi Shamir
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science and Chief Technical Advisor, CYOTA
Cryptography: State of the Science (abs)
Feb 17, Tuesday
Wean Hall, 7220
2:30pm-3:30pm
Krzysztof Pietrzak,
ETH Zurich
Indistinguishability and Composition of Random Systems
Feb 18, Wednesday
Wean 4623
12-1pm
Adi Shamir
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science and Chief Technical Advisor, CYOTA
A New Class of Stream Ciphers
Feb 19, Thursday
DH 1117
12:30 PM

Miklos Ruszinko
SZTAKI
Large Convex Cones in Hypercubes (abs)

Feb 19, Thursday
Wean 7500,
3:00 pm
Ron Shamir
Professor, School of Computer Science Tel Aviv University
Reverse Engineering of Genetics Networks
Feb 20-21
Mellon Institute Auditorium
Second RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Methods for SNPs and Haplotypes
 
23 - 29 February, 2 0 0 4
Feb 25, Wednesday
Wean Hall, 4625
1:30 -- 3:00 pm
Shuchi Chawla
Approximation Algorithms for Path-planning and Clustering Problems on Graphs (Thesis Proposal) (abs)
Feb 26, Thursday
WHERE: TBA
12:30 PM

R. Ravi
Metric Embeddings and Approximation Algorithms (slides)

Feb 27, Friday
Wean 4623
3:30
Michael Kearns
Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Network Models for Game Theory and Economics (abs)
 
1 - 7 March, 2 0 0 4
March 3, Wednesday
Wean Hall, 7623
noon-1:00pm
Hubert Chan
Approximating the Cut-norm of a Real Matrix
March 4, Thursday
Wean Hall, 7500
4:00 PM
Salim Roukos
Manager, Natural Language Systems
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights
Translingual Information Processing (abs)
March 4, Thursday
WHERE: TBA
12:30 PM
Amitabh Sinha
Multicommodity Facility Location

March 5, Friday
Wean Hall 4623
3:30pm
Yuval Rabani
Technion and Cornell University
Low Distortion Maps between Point Sets (abs)
OR
(R. Ravi)

 

8-14 March, 2 0 0 4
March 11,Thursday
NSH 3305
10:00
Eric Xing, UC/Berkeley
Probabilistic Graphical Models and Algorithms for Genomic Analysis (abs)
J. Lafferty
 
15-21 March 2 0 0 4
March 16,
Tuesday

Room 343 GSIA
10:30 - 12:00
Amr Farahat MIT
A Generalized Greedy Algorithm for Maximizing Submodular Functions over Matroids: New Results and Open Questions
GSIA
March 17, Wednesday
Wean Hall 7220
noon - 1:00pm
Nick Hopper
How to reveal a secret crush, negotiate a bribe, and more
March 18, Thursday
Room 343 GSIA
10:30am - 12:00
Kunal Talwar, Berkeley
TBA (Kunal has done work on
algorithmic game theory, approximation algorithms, and metric embeddings)
GSIA
March 19, Friday
Wean Hall 7220
1:00 - 2:00pm
Dimitris Achlioptas, Microsoft Research
A New Look at the Second Moment Method (abs)
 
22-28 March 2 0 0 4
March 24, Wednesday
Wean Hall 4623
noon - 1:00pm
Maria Florina Balcan
Approximating Kernels with Low-Dimensional Projections
 
29 March-4 April 2 0 0 4
March 31, Wednesday
Wean Hall 4623
noon - 1:00pm
Nick Hopper
A Theory of Steganography

April 2,
Friday

Peter Hammer
 
5-11 April 2 0 0 4
April 7, Wednesday
Wean Hall 4623
noon - 1:00pm
Yiannis Koutis
Three theorems in spectral graph theory
April 9,
Friday
NSH 3305
3:00pm

Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Expander flows and a sqrt{log n}-approximation for graph expansion/sparsest cut (abs)

April 9,
Friday

Raphael Hauser GSIA OR Seminars
April 9-10
NSH 3305
Web Structure and Algorithms Workshop
 
12-18 April 2 0 0 4
April 14,
Wednesday

Wean Hall 7220
noon - 1:00pm
Lea Kissner
April 15,
Thursday

DH 1117
12:30 PM
Michael Albert
University of Otago
Permutation classes, an overview
April 15,
Thursday

Wean Hall 7500
4:00pm
Tony Hoare
Senior Researcher, Programming Principles and Tools, Microsoft Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom

April 16
Friday
Wean 7220
3:30pm

Muthu Muthukrishnan
Rutgers Univ
What is hot, what is not; what is new, what is next? (abs)
 

19-25 April 2 0 0 4

April 18-19
Singleton Room, Roberts Hall
Workshop in Multiserver Scheduling
April 21,
Wednesday

Wean Hall 4623
noon - 1:00pm
Peter Richter
Lower Bounds for Graph Embeddings and Combinatorial Preconditioners
April 22,
Thursday

DH 1117
12:30 PM

Konstantin Andreev
Balanced Graph Partitioning

April 22,
Thursday
Wean Hall 7500
4:00pm
Sharad Malik
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
The Gaschnig/Oakley Memorial Lecture (abs)
April 23,
Friday

Wean Hall 7220
3:30pm
Philip Klein
Brown University
Multiple-source shortest paths in planar graphs in O(n log n) time (abs)
ALADDIN/Theory Seminar
(Danny Sleator)
 
23 April-2 May 2 0 0 4
April 28,
Wendesday
Wean Hall 4623
noon - 1:00pm
Shuchi Chawla
From Idiosyncratic to Stereotypical: Toward Privacy in Public Databases
April 29,
Thursday
DH 1117
12:30 PM
Jozsef Balogh
Ohio State University
Disjoint Representability of sets
 
16 - 22  May  2 0 0 4
Wednesday
May 19th

Wean Hall 4623
3:00pm
Luis von Ahn
Utilizing the Power of Human Cycles, Thesis Proposal
(abstract) (thesis summary)
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23 - 29  May  2 0 0 4
Monday
May 24th

Newell Simon Hall 3305
8:30am - 5:00pm
Lamps of ALADDIN Annual Project Review
 
30 May - 5 June  2 0 0 4
Thursday
June 3rd

Wean Hall 7316
3:00pm
Sean Hallgren, NEC Research, Princeton
Fast Quantum Algorithms for Computing the Unit Group and Class Group of a Number Field
(abstract)

 

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