ICS Theory Group

CompSci 269S, Winter 2012: Theory Seminar


The Theory Group normally meets Fridays at 1:00pm; this quarter we are in DBH 1423.

Below is this quarter's schedule.

January 13:        Mingyan Kityaev, On the history of Borsuk and Nelson-Erdos-Hadwiger classical problems and recent results for lower bounds of Borsuk and chromatic numbers in Euclidean spaces.
January 20: No seminar
January 27: Joe Simons Certifying Algorithms
February 3: Lowell Trott Global Minimum Cuts in Surface Embedded Graphs
February 10: Jenny Lam An improved 1D area law for frustration-free systems
February 17: TBD
February 24: Jack Cheng Approximate Tree Decompositions of Planar Graphs in Linear Time
March 2: Michael Bannister Randomized Speedup of the Bellman.Ford Algorithm
March 9: Ali Mehrabi The Secretary Problem on Graphs
March 16: Pawel Pszona Cole's Parametric Search Technique Made Practical

Previous quarters' theory seminars