CS Seminars, 2000-2001

Mondays 14:30, Zyskind Room 1.

December 4, 2000: Magnus Halldorsson. Average coloring planar graphs.

January 29, 2001: Dorit Aharonov. What We Know About Quantum Computation.

February 19, 2001: Howard Karloff. Approximation Algorithms for 0-EXTENSION.

April 16, 2001: Richard Karp. The Design of Universal Gene Chips: A Combinatorial Problem in Molecular Biology.

August 20, 2001: Michael Segal. Harnessing probabilistic information for medical decision support.


CS Seminars, 1999-2000

October 25, 1999: Wolfgang Slany. The Complexity of Graph Ramsey Games.

November 22, 1999: Grzegorz Rosenberg. DNA Computing in Vivo - Gene Assembly in Ciliates.

November 29, 1999: Uri Zwick. All Pairs Shortest Paths Using Fast Matrix Multiplication.

December 20, 1999: Lila Kari. How to Compute with DNA.

December 27, 1999: Igor Shparlinski. Pseudorandom Number Generators in Cryptography and Methods of Monte Carlo.

January 3, 2000: Mats Rooth. EM Induction of Computational Linguistic Lexicons.

January 17, 2000: Dorit Ron. Optimal Derivation of Macroscopic Description for Statistical Systems: Ising spin example.

January 31, 2000: Paul Ward. The Effect of Increasing Communications Bandwidth on Human Culture.

March 13, 2000: Reuven Bar-Yehuda. A Unified Approach to Approximating Resource Allocation and Scheduling.

March 20, 2000: Michael Kositsky. A Cluster Memory Model for Learning Sequential Activities.

March 27, 2000: Guy Even. Improved Approximations of Crossings in Graph Drawings and VLSI Layout Areas.

April 17, 2000: Achi Brandt. Complexity of Scientific Computing.

May 8, 2000: Yuri Rabinovich. L_1 Embeddings of Graphs.

May 15, 2000: Hava Siegelmann. Learning Algorithms for Data Mining and search in Information Systems.

June 12, 2000: Omer Reingold. Entropy Waves, The Zig-Zag Graph Product, and New Constant-Degree Expanders and Extractors.

June 19, 2000: Nati Linial. Random lifts of graphs.

June 26, 2000: Deborah Estrin. Embedding the Internet: Instrumenting the physical world.


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