******************************** *** WEIZMANN-WARWICK MEETING *** ******************************** WHEN: September 10-13, 2012 WHERE: Eilat (Hotel: Rimonim Eilat) *** MEETING'S WEBPAGE *** http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~robi/seminars/WeizmannWarwickMeeting-2012_09.html *** MONDAY *** 10:00 Michael Dinitz, Weizmann. Matroid Secretary for Regular and Decomposable Matroids. 11:00 Uriel Feige, Weizmann. Competition Among Asymmetric Sellers With Fixed Supply. 12:00 Hotel check-in (rooms). 13:00 Welcome lunch (provided) and social gathering. 17:00 Inbal Rika, Weizmann. Mimicking Networks. 18:00 Harald Raecke, Warwick/Munich. Min-Max Graph Partitioning. 19:15 Matthias Englert, Warwick. On the reordering buffer problem. 20:30 Dinner. *** TUESDAY *** 9:00 Breakfast. 10:00 Shlomo Jozeph, Weizmann. Universal Factor Graphs. 11:00 Artur Czumaj, Warwick. Random Permutation Networks. 11:30 Work in small groups. 13:00 Lunch break. 15:00 Daniel Reichman, Weizmann. Metropolis Process for MIS. 15:45 Roee David, Weizmann. Coloring Random Geometric Graphs. 16:30 Rani Izsak, Weizmann. Maximizing Submodular Functions with Supermodular Dependencies. 17:30 Work in small groups. 20:00 Dinner. *** WEDNESDAY *** 9:00 Breakfast. 10:00 Itay Gonshorovitz, Weizmann. Reducing the Maximum Flow. 11:00 Amin Coja-Oghlan, Warwick/Frankfurt. MIS in Random Graphs. 12:00 Lunch break. 15:00 Harald Raecke, Warwick/Munich. Further discussion on Min-Max Graph Partitioning and Trees Embedding. 16:00 Work in small groups. 20:00 Dinner. *** THURSDAY *** 9:00 Breakfast and hotel check-out (rooms). 11:00 Artur Czumaj, Warwick. Improved Algorithms for the Euclidean Facility Location Problem. 12:00 Work in small groups. 13:30 Lunch break. 15:00 Work in small groups. 17:00 conference adjourns