Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
Sept 14, 2007 |
Maarten van den Nest
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information |
Width Parameters of Graphs and Codes, and
Tree Tensor Networks
|
Sang-Il Oum |
Sept 21, 2007 |
Kevin Purbhoo
University of Waterloo |
Tableaux, Puzzles and Mosaics |
|
Sept 28, 2007 |
Andrew Childs
University of Waterloo |
Optimal Quantum Adversary Lower Bounds for
Ordered Search |
|
Oct 5, 2007 |
Jim Geelen
University of Waterloo |
The k-Linkage Problem for Graphs |
|
Oct 12, 2007 |
Hristo Sendov
University of Western Ontario |
On the Tunçel Conjecture: A New Class of
Self-Concordant Barriers on Sets of Symmetric Matrices |
Levent Tunçel |
Oct 19, 2007 |
Jochen Könemann
University of Waterloo |
Group-Strategy Proof Mechanisms for Network
Design Games |
|
Oct 26, 2007 |
Nick Wormald
University of Waterloo |
Counting Unrooted Maps and Convex Polyhedra |
|
Nov 2, 2007 |
Ashwin Nayak
University of Waterloo |
The Direct-Product Property, Subdistribution Bounds,
and Applications |
|
Nov 9, 2007 |
Chris Godsil
University of Waterloo |
Are Most Graphs Determined by their Spectrum? |
|
Nov 16, 2007 |
Gary McGuire
University College Dublin |
New Nonlinear Functions for S-Boxes in
Cryptography and their Fourier Transform |
Alfred Menezes |
Nov 23, 2007 |
Steve Vavasis
University of Waterloo |
Greedy Algorithms and Complexity for Nonnegative Matrix
Factorization |
|
Nov 30, 2007 |
Mike Molloy
University of Toronto |
The Resolution Complexity of Random Constraint Satisfaction
Problems |
Nick Wormald |
Dec 7, 2007 |
Yurii Nesterov
Catholic University of Louvain |
Gradient Methods for Minimizing Composite Objective
Function |
Levent Tunçel |
Dec 14, 2007 |
David Wagner
University of Waterloo |
Electrical Networks, Random Spanning Trees, and Correlation
Inequalities |
|