Discrete Mathematics and Optimization Seminar

Winter Term Schedule 2005

January 10th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205
Paul Seymour
Princeton University
The roots of the stable set polynomial of a claw-free graph

January 17th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205

Eva Tardos
Cornell University
Network Games and the Price of Anarchy or Stability

February 14th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205

Jan Vondrak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Benefit of Adaptivity in Stochastic Optimization

February 21st
Monday, 2.30pm (note unusual time)
Burnside 1205

Mohammad Mahdian
Microsoft Research
Marriage, Honesty, and Stability

March 7th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205

David Wood
McGill University
Fast Separation in Graphs with an Excluded Minor

March 14th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205

Klaus Reinhardt
University of Tuebingen
Reachability in Petri Nets with Inhibitor Arcs

March 21st
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205

George Karakostas
McMaster University
The Good, the Bad, and the Rich: Routing selfish, class-conscious, and malicious users on traffic networks

March 31st
Thursday, 4.30pm (note unusual day and room)
McConnell 320

Daniel Solow
Case Western Reserve University
Mathematical Models for Explaining the Emergence of Specialization in Performing Tasks


Previous Seminars
Fall 2004
Winter 2004
Fall 2003
Winter 2003
Fall 2002
Winter 2002
See also the McGill Algorithms Seminar.



Information

This seminar is jointly organised by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
and the School of Computer Science
.
For information contact:
Seminar Coordinator : Adrian Vetta
The other organisers are : D. Avis (CS), W. Brown (Math), D. Bryant (Math), L. Devroye (CS), B. Reed (CS), G. Toussaint (CS), and S. Whitesides (CS).