Tutte Seminar Series, Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, Winter 2010

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

Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 8, 2010 Richard Anstee
University of British Columbia
Forbidden Configurations: a survey Penny Haxell
Jan 15, 2010 No Seminar
Jan 22, 2010 Alfred Menezes
University of Waterloo
Elliptic Curve Cyptography: The Serpentine Course of a Paradigm Shift  
Jan 29, 2010 David Wagner
University of Waterloo
Multivariate stable polynomials  
Feb 5, 2010 Chaitanya Swamy
University of Waterloo
Risk-Averse Stochastic Optimization: Models and Algorithms  
Feb 12, 2010 Juan Vera
Dept. of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo
Positive Polynomials Over Equality Constrained Unbounded Sets  
Feb 19, 2010 Steve Vavasis
University of Waterloo
Convex relaxation for the clique, biclique and clustering problems  
Feb 26, 2010 No Seminar
Mar 5, 2010 Alexander Barvinok
University of Michigan
The number of matrices and a random matrix with prescribed row and column sums and 0-1 entries Henry Wolkowicz
Mar 12, 2010 John Watrous
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
QIP = PSPACE  
Mar 19, 2010 Jim Geelen
University of Waterloo
On minor-closed classes of matroids  
Mar 26, 2010 Boris Mordukhovich
Wayne State University
Some new trends and applications of variational analysis Henry Wolkowicz
Apr 2, 2010 No Seminar due to Easter Holiday
Apr 9, 2010 Toh Kim Chuan
National University of Singapore
Semidefinite programming: algorithms and applications Henry Wolkowicz
Apr 23, 2010 Konstantinos Georgiou
University of Toronto
Fooling Strong LP and SDP Relaxations for Vertex Cover Jochen Könemann

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