McGill Seminar on Discrete Mathematics and Optimization 
 
Jointly Organized 
by 
 School of Computer Science 
 and 
 Department of Mathematics and Statistics 
 
  Program Fall 2002
-   September 9 (Monday) 
Burnside Hall 1205, 17:00 -- 18:00
-  Alexei Miasnikov (Math/Stat, McGill University)
-   Data mining in solving hard mathematical problems  
   
-  September 11 (Wednesday) 
Burnside Hall 1205, 17:00 -- 18:00
 -  Sylvain Lazard (Inria-Loria, France)
-   Robust intersection of quadric surfaces 
  -  October 9 (Wednesday) 
McConnell 103, 17:00 -- 18:00 BR>
 -  Gyula Karolyi (Math, Eotvos University, Hungary)
-   An Erdos-Szekeres type problem in the plane 
  -  October 15 (Tuesday) 
Burnside Hall 1205, 16:45 -- 17:45  (Jointly with Applied Math Seminar) 
 -  Dmitry Jakobson (Math/Stat, McGill)
-   Extremal metrics on graphs 
  -  October 21 (Monday) 
Macdonald Harrington G-10, 17:15 -- 18:30
 -  William R. Pulleyblank (IBM Research, USA)
-   Proteins, petaflops and algorithms  
  -  October 28 (Monday) 
Burnside Hall 1205, 17:00 -- 18:00
 -  Frank Ruskey (CS, University of Victoria)
-   A fast gray code listing of the perfect elimination orderings of a chordal graph  
  -  November 6 (Wednesday) 
Burnside Hall 1205, 17:00 -- 18:00
 -  Bojan Mohar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
-   Circular chromatic number of weighted graphs and digraphs  
  -  November 14 (Thursday) 
Burnside Hall 920, 17:00 -- 18:00 <- New room and unusual day 
 
 -  Dieter Rautenbach (RWTH-Aachen, Germany)
-   Combinatorial reconstruction problems
and width parameters of graphs 
  -  November 25 (Monday) 
Burnside Hall 1205, 17:00 -- 18:00
 -  Andrei A. Bulatov (Oxford University, UK)
-   The complexity of constraint satisfaction: an algebraic approach  
  
  
Past Events:  Winter 2002 
Related Links:  McGill Algorithms Seminar 
  
Organizers:
D. Avis (CS),
W. Brown (Math) 
D. Bryant (CS/Math),
L. Devroye (CS), 
K. Fukuda (CS), 
B. Reed (CS), V. Rosta (Math),
G. Toussaint (CS) and S. Whitesides (CS).
Coordinators (email): 
 Komei Fukuda (CS) and 
 Vera Rosta (Math) 
Mailing List Maintainer (email):
 Steven Robbins
 
This page: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~fukuda/semi/discmath.html 
Last updated: 2002-11-12