Tutte Seminar Series, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, Winter 2009

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

Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 9, 2009 Kevin Purbhoo
University of Waterloo
Jeu de Taquin and Wronskians of polynomials  
Jan 16, 2009 No Seminar
Jan 23, 2009 Igor Shparlinski
Macquarie University
Fermat quotients Alfred Menezes
Jan 30, 2009 Bruce Richter
University of Waterloo
Recent results on planarity  
Feb 6, 2009 Bruce Richmond
University of Waterloo
The Asymptotic Enumeration of Maps  
Feb 13, 2009 Jim Geelen
University of Waterloo
Inequivalent representations of matroids  
Feb 20, 2009 Michael Best
University of Waterloo
Portfolio Optimization  
Feb 27, 2009 Levent Tunçel
University of Waterloo
Fundamentals of Convergence Theories for Convex Relaxation Hierarchies  
Mar 6, 2009 Yinyu Ye
Stanford University
A Unified Theorem on Semidefinite Programming Rank Reduction and its Applications Steve Vavasis
Mar 13, 2009 Pablo Parrilo
MIT
From the stable set problem to convex algebraic geometry Steve Vavasis
Mar 20, 2009 Guy Kortsarz
Rutgers University
Inceasing connectivity of a graph from 1 to 2 Jochen Könemann
Mar 27, 2009 Edlyn Teske
University of Waterloo
Pairing-friendly elliptic curves with variable CM discriminant  
Apr 3, 2009 David Wagner
University of Waterloo
The Random Cluster Model  
Apr 10, 2009 No Seminar due to Easter Holiday
Apr 24, 2009 Dan McQuillan
Norwich University
Kotzig Arrays and Magic Labelings Bruce Richter

Seminars from previous terms
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Winter 2008
Fall 2007