Algorithms and Problem Solving Seminar
Every area of computer science research involves formulating and solving problems. The solutions are in the form of algorithms. In this seminar, every week, we shall discuss some interesting problems which arise from our research work. The emphasis is on clearly formulating and expressing the problem formulations and discuss strategies to solve it. This is more "discussion" oriented rather than one-way "talk" where the speaker does most of the talking. Nevertheless, we hope to have one driving speaker every week.
Mondays -1:30 - 2:30 pm in Coates 256
Participants: Rahul Shah, Costas Busch, Raj Kannan, Bijaya Karki, Sukhamay Kundu, S. Iyengar, Don Kraft, Andrei Hutanu, Manish Patil, .....(we hope to see a lot more in coming weeks...)
Schedule:
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 2/4/08 | Rahul Shah | Caching/prefetching on parallel disks |
| 2/11/08 | Andrei Hutanu/ Cornelius Toole | Optimal resource selection for data transfer/prefetching in optical networks |
| 2/18/08 | Costas Busch | Oblivious Routing on Grid Networks |
| 2/25/08 | Costas Busch | Oblivious Routing on Grid Networks (contd) |
| 3/3/08 | Rahul Shah | Caching Prefetching on Parallel Disks (contd) |
| 3/10/08 | no semniar | phd qualifiers |
| 3/24/08 | Richard Karp | IELTS invited lecture series |
| 3/31/08 | Rahul Shah | Range Minimum Queries in compressed space |
| 4/7/08 | Rajgopal Kannan | Approximating Channel Quantization in Relaying using k-medians |
| 4/14/08 | Don Kraft | Discrete Lagrangian Optimization Algorithm via Relaxation |
| 4/21/08 | Rahul Shah | Facility Location Problems on Trees |
| 4/28/08 | Rajgopal Kannan | Optimization problems in networking |