Tutte Seminar Series, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, Winter 2008

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

Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 11, 2008 Gary Miller
Carnegie Mellon University
Image Segmentation using Spectral Graph Theory Steve Vavasis
Jan 18, 2008 Graeme Smith
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes Debbie Leung
Jan 25, 2008 Ian Goulden
University of Waterloo
The KP hierarchy, branched covers and triangulations  
Feb 1, 2008 Seminar cancelled due to UW closure
Feb 8, 2008 Jim Geelen
University of Waterloo
Growth rates of minor-closed classes of matroids  
Feb 15, 2008 Bruce Richter
University of Waterloo
2-crossing-critical graphs  
Feb 22, 2008 Levent Tunçel
University of Waterloo
Strict Complementarity in Continuous Optimization  
Feb 29, 2008 No Seminar due to Waterloo Numerical Analysis Symposium
Mar 7, 2008 Naonori Kakimura
University of Tokyo
Sign-Solvability of Linear Programming and Linear Complementarity Problems Bill Cunningham
Mar 14, 2008 Gordon Royle
University of Western Australia
Chromatic Zeros of Graphs Chris Godsil
Mar 21, 2008 No Seminar due to Easter Holiday
Mar 28, 2008 David Jackson
University of Waterloo
The φ4- and Penner models of 2d quantum gravity, the moduli space of curves and properties of 2-cell embeddings of graphs in Riemann surfaces  
Apr 4, 2008 David Shmoys
Cornell University
Approximation algorithms for (two) discrete stochastic optimization problems Chaitanya Swamy
Apr 11, 2008 No Seminar: seminar moved to April 25
Apr 25, 2008 U.S.R. Murty
University of Waterloo (adjunct)
Unsolved Problems in Graph Theory  

Seminars from previous terms
Fall 2007