Algorithms Theory Seminar, Fall 2008

Coordinators: Meera Sitharam, Aysegul Ozkan, Jialong Cheng, Amit Verma

Faculty Advisor: Meera Sitharam

Other Faculty:

Sartaj Sahni	Sanjay Ranka	Richard Newman
Anand Rangarajan	Tim Davis	Alin Dobra
Arunava Banerjee	Alper Ungor	My Tra Thai

Time and place: Usually on Friday 4:00pm to 4:50pm in CSE 404.

General goals:

1. Talks by faculty and students on research problems and special topics.
2. Discussion of research problems. Will provide an opportunity for students and/or faculty to collaborate on projects. There will be one main presenter who volunteers to describe problems related to their research during each meeting.
3. Discussion of Ph. D qualifiers exam problems including questions that have previously appeared on the exam. Questions from algorithms and theory will be discussed. There will be about 2 meetings and these will be scheduled close to the exam dates for the semester. Here are some strategies for working on qualifiers.
4. There would be up to 4 talks in the seminar every semester that will be eligible for the PhD seminar attendance requirement and will be announced as such by the overall department seminar coordinator Dr. Helmy.

Note: If you are interested in participating in the activities of the seminar and wish to receive email about upcoming events please send an email to  averma@cise.ufl.edu.  

Request to Speakers: Please (encourage and) allow plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Schedule:

PhD qualifying exam discussion (session 1)	Amit S. Dhurandhar, Ferhat Ay., Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy, Meera Sitharam	Oct 3, Fri, 4-5 pm	CSE 404
PhD qualifying exam discussion (session 2)	Amit S. Dhurandhar, Ferhat Ay., Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy, Meera Sitharam	Oct 10, Fri, 4-5 pm	CSE 404
A Combinatorial Approach for Railroad Operating Plan Design	Ravindra K. Ahuja	Nov 7, Fri, 3-4 pm	CSE 404
The Group-Theoretic Approach to Generating Cutting Planes in Mixed Integer Programming: Theory and Perspectives	Jean Philippe Richard	Nov 14, Fri, 4-5 pm	CSE 404
Stochastic Models for Operational Problems	Anand Paul	Nov 21, Fri, 4-5 pm	CSE 404

Cross-Linked Seminar

• G2V2 at CISE Department at UF;
• Math Seminars at Math Department at UF.

Previous Algorithms & Theory Seminars:

Spring08	Spring07	Fall06	Spring06	Fall05	Spring05
Fall04	Spring04	Fall03	Spring03	Fall02	Summer02