Tutte Seminar Series, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, Spring 2012

Regular time and location:  Fridays at 3:30pm in room MC 5158.

Date Speaker Title Host
May 4, 2012 (Note: MC5136) Bruce Richter
University of Waterloo

Tutte's proof of Kuratowski's Theorem
May 11, 2012 Dan Younger
University of Waterloo (adjunct, emeritus)
On Tutte's 3-flow conjecture
May 18, 2012 Chris Godsil
University of Waterloo
All the King's Horses
May 25, 2012 (Note: MC5136) Marco di Summa
University of Padova
A notion of inverse Chvátal rank Laura Sanità
June 1, 2012 (Note: MC5136) Jim Geelen
University of Waterloo
How to draw a graph
June 8, 2012 Daniel Steffy
Oakland University
Exact solutions to linear and integer programming problems
June 15, 2012 John Dennis
Noah G. Harding Professor, Emeritus, Rice University
Things I Did and Things I Wanted to Do Henry Wolkowicz
June 22, 2012 Bernhard von Stengel
London School of Economics
Constructing and computing equilibria for two-player games Jochen Könemann
June 29, 2012 Zachary Friggstad
University of Waterloo
Approximating Minimum Cost Connected T-Joins
July 6, 2012 Bruce Richmond
University of Waterloo (adjunct, emeritus)
Factoring Polynomials over a Finite Field
July 13, 2012 Laura Sanità
University of Waterloo
0/1 Polytopes with Quadratic Chvátal Rank
July 20, 2012 Nicolas Gillis
University of Waterloo
Fast and Robust Algorithms for Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
July 27, 2012 Marina Epelman
University of Michigan
A column generation-based algorithm for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) treatment plan optimization Levent Tunçel

Seminars from previous terms
Winter 2012 Fall 2011
Spring 2011 Winter 2011 Fall 2010
Spring 2010 Winter 2010 Fall 2009
Spring 2009 Winter 2009 Fall 2008
Spring 2008 Winter 2008 Fall 2007