Tutte Seminar Series, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, Spring 2011

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

Date Speaker Title Host
May 6, 2011 Bruce Richter
University of Waterloo
Zarankiewicz' Conjecture is finite  
May 13, 2011 No Seminar
May 20, 2011 Igor Shparlinski
Macquarie University
Graphs and Matrices with Integral Spectrum in Some Families Alfred Menezes
May 27, 2011 Henry Wolkowicz
University of Waterloo
Strong Duality in Semidefinite Programming and Facial Reduction with Applications to Sensor Network Localization and Molecular Conformation  
Jun 3, 2011 Ron King
University of Southampton
Three types of Schur function product and generating functions for the coefficients appearing in their decomposition Angele Hamel (WLU)
Jun 10, 2011 Iain Moffatt
University of South Alabama
Twisted duality and isomorphism of medial graphs David Jackson
Jun 17, 2011 Hayato Waki
The University of Electro-Communications
SemiDefinite Programming Relaxation for Polynomial Optimization Problems  
Jun 24, 2011 Yichuan Ding
Stanford University
Price of Correlation in Stochastic Optimization Henry Wolkowicz
Jul 1, 2011 No Seminar due to University Holiday
Jul 8, 2011 David Jao
University of Waterloo
Quantum-resistant public-key cryptosystems from supersingular elliptic curve isogenies  
Jul 15, 2011 Maurice Cheung
Cornell University
A Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithm for Min-Sum Single Machine Scheduling Problems  
Jul 22, 2011 Chaitanya Swamy
University of Waterloo
Linear-programming based techniques for minimum latency problems  
Jul 29, 2011 Aidan Roy
University of Waterloo
Complex spherical codes and designs  
Aug 5, 2011
NOTE: MC5136
Jason Gao
Carleton University
Locally restricted compositions Nick Wormald

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