David Pritchard
University of Waterloo
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1

Office Location: MC 5164
Office Phone: 519-888-4567 x36673
email: daveagp [at] gmail [full-stop] com

I am a PhD student in the C&O department at the University of Waterloo. My advisor is Jochen Könemann. My main research interests are discrete optimization, approximability, linear programming, graphs, and distributed algorithms.

Teaching

• I taught "CO 456: Introduction to Game Theory" in Fall 2008 and Fall 2007

Professional Activities

• Papers, Presentations, Enrichment Activities
• I participate on the Board of Directors for the Waterloo Grad Student Association
• tinygroups - a Maple package for finite groups of order at most 60
• Java applets: Finite-State Symmetric Graph Automata and Bisubtraction Games

Other Stuff

• My blog
• A few photos
• To access UW journal subscriptions off-campus: LibX plugin or drag this Proxyify bookmarklet to your bookmarks.
• Compilation of useful info for new C&O grad students

Useful Free Software

• Make diagrams in LaTeX: pstricks
• Embed LaTeX in PowerPoint: tex4ppt
• LaTeX bibliography management: JabRef
• Print to pdf in Windows: pdfCreator
• Dynamic geometric constructions & image exporting: geogebra