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C&O 40th Conference

June 18th - 23rd, 2007

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the department, and the 50th anniversary of the university, the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo hosted a six day conference June 18-23, 2007. The theme focussed on the six main research areas represented by the department: algebraic combinatorics; combinatorial optimization; continuous optimization; cryptography; graph theory; and quantum computing. The goal of the conference was to encourage and stimulate both further research within these areas, and cross-discipline interaction. We were greatly honoured by the 54 invited speakers whose participation ensured that this was an outstanding event for established research scientists and graduate students alike.

  • Condensed Conference Schedule
  • Detailed Conference Schedule
  • Speakers Titles, Abstracts, Slides
  • Poster Session Presenters and Titles

Invited Speakers:

  • Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University
  • Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University/Institute for Advanced Study
  • George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
  • Eric Bach, University of Wisconsin
  • Michael Ben-Or, Hebrew University
  • Charles Bennett, IBM T.J. Watson
  • Nantel Bergeron, York University
  • Philippe Biane, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
  • Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal
  • Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
  • Andrew R.Conn, IBM
  • Bill Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Gérard Cornuéjols, Carnegie Mellon University/Marseille
  • Claude Crépeau, McGill University
  • Ronald de Wolf, CWI, Amsterdam
  • Bert Gerards, CWI and Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Ira Gessel, Brandeis University
  • Michel Goemans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Patrick Hayden, McGill University
  • Satoru Iwata, Kyoto University
  • David Jackson, University of Waterloo
  • Julia Kempe, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud
  • Neal Koblitz, University of Washington
  • Adrian Lewis, Cornell University
  • Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University
  • Mike Molloy, University of Toronto
  • Jorge Moré, Argonne National Labs
  • Assaf Naor, Microsoft, Seattle
  • Yurii Nesterov, CORE - Université Catholique de Louvain
  • Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota
  • Oded Regev, Tel Aviv University
  • James Renegar, Cornell University
  • Alexander Schrijver, CWI, Amsterdam
  • Leonard J. Schulman, California Institute of Technology
  • Andras Sebö, G-SCOP, Grenoble
  • Paul Seymour, Princeton University
  • Peter Shor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Alice Silverberg, University of California, Irvine
  • Richard Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • John Stembridge, University of Michigan
  • Benny Sudakov, Princeton University
  • Éva Tardos, Cornell University
  • Barbra Terhal, IBM Watson
  • Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Andrew Thomason, University of Cambridge
  • Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
  • Michael J. Todd, Cornell University
  • Umesh Vazirani, University of California, Berkeley
  • Hugh Williams, University of Calgary
  • David Williamson, Cornell University
  • Richard Wilson, California Institute of Technology
  • Margaret H. Wright, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  • Steve Wright, University of Wisconsin
  • Yinyu Ye, Stanford University