Tutte Seminar Series, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, Winter 2013

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

Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 11, 2013 No Seminar
Jan 18, 2013 David Wagner
University of Waterloo
Stable polynomials, matroids, and sums of squares  
Jan 25, 2013 Jon Lee
University of Michigan
Some submodular maximization algorithms Levent Tunçel
Feb 1, 2013 Ian Post
University of Waterloo
The performance of the simplex method on deterministic Markov decision processes  
Feb 8, 2013 No Seminar due to UW closure
Feb 15, 2013 Fatma Kilinç-Karzan
Carnegie Mellon University
On Unified View of Nullspace-type Conditions for Sparse and Low-rank Recoveries Levent Tunçel
Feb 22, 2013 Nicolai Hähnle
TU Berlin
The Delta-ball game and the polynomial Hirsch conjecture Laura Sanita
Mar 1, 2013 Guillaume Chapuy
LIAFA, France
Counting factorizations of Coxeter elements into products of reflections Ian Goulden
Mar 8, 2013 Chris Godsil
University of Waterloo
Erdös-Ko-Rado and Polytopes  
Mar 15, 2013 David Gosset
University of Waterloo
Universal computation by multi-particle quantum walk Andrew Childs
Mar 22, 2013 Christoph Helmberg
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Links between Spectral Properties of the Laplacian and Structural Properties of the Graph Henry Wolkowicz
Mar 29, 2013 No Seminar due to Good Friday
Apr 5, 2013 Penny Haxell
University of Waterloo
Extremal hypergraphs for packing and covering  
Apr 12, 2013 James Oxley
Louisiana State University
Inductive tools for handling internally 4-connected binary matroids Jim Geelen

Seminars from previous terms
Fall 2012
Spring 2012 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