Topics of DIMACS Special Year/Special Focus Programs:

• Special Year on Discrete and Computational Geometry

  September 1989 - August 1990

  Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University, Chair

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• Special Year on Complexity Theory of Interactive Computation

  September 1990 - August 1991

  Endre Szemeredi, Rutgers University, Co-Chair

  Andrew Yao, Princeton University, Co-Chair

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• Special Year on Graph Theory and Algorithms

  September 1991 - August 1992

  Fan Chung, Bellcore, Co-Chair

  W. Tom Trotter, Arizona State University and Bellcore, Co-Chair

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• Special Year on Combinatorial Optimization

  September 1992 - August 1993

  Laszlo Lovasz, Princeton University and Budapest, Co-Chair

  Paul D. Seymour, Bellcore, Co-Chair

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• Special Year on Massively Parallel Computing

  September 1993 - August 1994

  Tom Leighton, MIT, Co-Chair

  Bruce Maggs, NEC, Co-Chair

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• Special Year on Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology

  August 1994 - August 2000

  Fred Roberts, Rutgers, Mathematics and DIMACS, Chair

  Joachim Messing, Rutgers University, Chair

  Lawrence Shepp, Rutgers University, Co-Chair

  Michael Waterman, USC, Mathematics and Biology, Co-Chair

  Martin Farach, Rutgers University, Computer Science and DIMACS, Assistant Chair

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• Special Year on Logic and Algorithms

  September 1995 - August 1996

  Eric Allender, Rutgers University

  Bob Kurshan, AT&T Bell Labs

  Moshe Vardi, Rice University

  Steve Bloch, Adelphi University, Publicity Chair

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• Special Focus on Networks

  September 1996 - August 2000

  Stuart Haber, Surety Technologies

  David S. Johnson, AT&T Labs - Research

  Mihalis Yannakakis, Bell Labs

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• Special Focus on Discrete Probability

  September 1996 - August 1998

  Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Study

  Jeffrey Kahn, Rutgers University

  Peter Winkler, Bell Labs

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• Special Year on Massive Data Sets

  September 1997 - August 1998

  Robert Sedgewick, Princeton University

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• Special Year on DNA Computing

  February 1997 - August 1998

  Richard Lipton, Princeton University

  Laura Landweber, Princeton University

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• Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization

  September 1998 - August 2000

  Mike Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, Chair

  Endre Boros, Rutgers/DIMACS

  William Pulleyblank, IBM

  Bob Vanderbei, Princeton/DIMACS

  Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech

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• Special Year on Computational Intractability

  September 1999 - December 2000 or January 2001

  Michael Saks, Rutgers University, Chair

  David Johnson, AT&T Labs - Research

  Christos Papadimitriou, Department of Computer Science, U.C. Berkeley

  Eva Tardos, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

  Avi Widgerson, Hebrew University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

  Andrew Yao, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

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• Special Focus on Next Generation Network Technologies and Applications

  January 2000 - August 2003

  B. R. Badrinath, Rutgers University

  Sandeep Bhatt, Akamai Technologies

  Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs - Research

  S. Muthukrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research

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• Special Focus on Computational Molecular Biology

  September 2000 - August 2004

  Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers U. Computer Science, Chair

  Craig Nevill-Manning, Rutgers U. Computer Science, Assistant Chair

  Wilma Olson, Rutgers U. Molecular Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry

  Fred Roberts, Rutgers U. Mathematics

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• Special Focus on Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer and Information Science

  September 2000 - August 2003

  Michael Fredman, Rutgers University Computer Science

  Janos Komlos, Rutgers University Mathematics

  Fred Roberts, Rutgers University Mathematics

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• Special Focus on Data Analysis and Mining

  September 2001 - August 2006

  Adam Buchsbaum, AT&T Labs, Chair

  Pierre Hansen, GERAD--University of Montreal, Co-chair

  Diane Lambert, Bell Labs

  David Madigan, Rutgers University

  Mario Szegedy, Rutgers University

  Yehuda Vardi, Rutgers University

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• Special Focus on Computational Information Theory and Coding

  January 2001 - August 2005

  Robert Calderbank, AT&T Labs, Chair

  Chris Rose, Rutgers Unviersity

  Amin Shokrollahi, Digital Fountain

  Emina Soljanin (co-chair), Bell Labs

  Sergio Verdu, Princeton University

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• Special Focus on Computational Geometry and Applications

  September 2002 - August 2005

  Steven Fortune, Bell Labs, Chair

  Bernard Chazelle, Princeton

  Bill Steiger, Rutgers University, local arrangements chair

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• Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology
  
  March 2002 - August 2011
  Organizing Committee:
  
  • Mathematics and Computer Science:

    Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers University

    S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University

    Fred S. Roberts, Special Focus Chair, Rutgers University
    

  • Statistics:

    Donald Hoover, Rutgers University

    David Madigan, Rutgers University
    

  • Public Health and Epidemiology:

    Marc Lipsitch, Harvard School of Public Health

    Megan Murray, Harvard School of Public Health

    David Ozonoff, Boston University

    Burton Singer, Princeton University

    Daniel Wartenberg, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
    

  • Biology:

    Sunetra Gupta, Oxford University

    David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute

    Simon Levin, Princeton University
    

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• Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy

  January 2003 - August 2009

  Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC, Chair

  Bill Aiello, AT&T Labs, Vice Chair

  Hugo Krawczyk, Technion

  Avi Rubin, AT&T

  David Wagner, UC Berkeley

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• Special Focus on Computation and Socio-Economic Sciences

  2004 - 2008

  Lance Fortnow, CS, University of Chicago

  Fred Roberts, DIMACS/Rutgers University

  Rakesh Vohra, Kellogg School of Management

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• Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology

  2004 - 2010

  Ron Levy, BioMaPS, Rutgers University

  Wilma Olson, MB Center, Rutgers University

  Fred Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University

  Eduardo Sontag, BioMaPS, DIMACS, Rutgers University

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• Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems

  2006 - 2010

  Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research

  Dana Randall, Georgia Tech, Co-Chair

  Gregory Sorkin, IBM Research, Co-Chair

  Eric Vigoda, Georgia Tech

  Peter Winkler, Dartmouth

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• Special Focus on Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet

  2007 - 2011

  Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz, University of Waterloo

  Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University

  Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University

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• Special Focus on Hardness of Approximation

  2008 - 2011

  Sanjeev Arora, Co-chair, Princeton University

  Moses Charikar, Co-chair, Princeton University

  Subhash Khot, New York University

  Michael Saks, Rutgers University

  Lisa Zhang, Bell Laboratories

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