ICS Theory Group

ICS 269, Winter 2002: Theory Seminar


The Theory Group meets Fridays at 1:00pm in the CS 432 conference room.

Below is the current status of this quarter's schedule.

Jan 11 CS 432 Organizational meeting  
Jan 18   Cancelled  
Jan 25 CS 432 David Eppstein Open Problems in Graph Theory and Computational Geometry
Feb 1 CS 432 Cancelled  
Feb 8     (The Southern California Theory Day is on this day.)
Feb 15 CS 432 Michael Goodrich Confluent drawings: Drawing non-planar graphs in a planar way
Feb 22 CS 432 Matthew Nguyen A presentation of results from "Primal-dual approximation algorithms for metric facility location and k-median problems," by K. Jain and V. Vazirani, Proceedings to the 40th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, and "Algorithms for Facility Location Problems with Outliers," by Moses Charikar, Samir Khuller, David M. Mount, and Giri Narasimhan, 12th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2001.
Mar 1 CS 432 Jonathan Sun Efficient Key Updates in Hierarchical Groups
Mar 8 CS 432 Javid Hüseynov A presentation of results from "Moving an Angle Around a Region" by Frank Hoffman, Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, and Klaus Kriegel, in Proc. SWAT '98, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Stockholm, 1998, and online publication by the Journal of Discrete & Computational Geometry.
Mar 15 CS 432 Mike Dillencourt A presentation of results from "Center and diameter problems in plane triangulations and quadrangulations," by Victor Chepoi, Feodor Dragan, and Yann Vaxes, Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2002), San Francisco, CA, January 2002, 346-355.

Previous quarters' theory seminars