Speakers for the Spring Semester 2009
January 27 507 Math
Marty Golumbic
(University of Haifa) Algorithmic Graph Theory
and its applications THIS TALK IS AT 5 PM!!!
February 3 303 Mudd
Paul Seymour (Princeton)
Packing seagulls
February 10 507 Math
Gregory Bard
(Fordham University) Exponential Generating
Functions, High Powers of Random Permutations, and Very Iterated Block
Ciphers
February 20 520 Math 3:45 pm
Satyan Devadoss
(Williams College) Topology of Particle
Collisions PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME
February 24 507 Math
Mike Neiman (Rutgers) Negative correlation inequalities
and log-concavity
March 3 303 Mudd
David Speyer (MIT)
The cube and octahedron recurrences
March 10 507 Math
Sergey Norin (Princeton)
K_t minors in large t-connected graphs
March 17 No seminar---Spring Break
March 25 303 Mudd 3 pm
Po-Shen Loh (Princeton and UCLA)
Maximizing the number of colorings
PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME
March 31 303 Mudd
Rama Cont
(Columbia)
Too interconnected to fail: contagion and risk in
financial networks
April 7 507 Math
Hoi H. Nguyen (Rutgers)
On squares in sumsets
April 14 303 Mudd
Jonathan L. Gross (Columbia)
Link and Graph-Imbedding Models for Cyclic Weaving on Surfaces}
April 21 507 Math
Yori Zwols (Columbia)
Large cliques or stable sets in graphs with no P_4
and no P_5^c
April 28 303 Mudd
Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
Semidefinite programming and approximation algorithms: A
survey of recent results
Past Talks
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
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