DIMACS/Georgia Tech 2006-2008 Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems: Calendar
- Conference on Probabilistic Combinatorics & Algorithms:
a Conference in Honor of Joel Spencer's 60th Birthday
- Dates: April 24 - 25, 2006
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and the Institute for Advanced Study; Janos Pach, NYU and Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary; Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland; and Prasad Tetali, Georgia Tech
- Email: nogaa@post.tau.ac.il, pach@cims.nyu.edu, srin@cs.umd.edu, tetali@math.gatech.edu
- Discrete Random Systems Special Focus Kickoff Lecture
- Dates: October 5, 2006
- Time: 11:25 am - 12:05 pm
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Speaker: Gregory Sorkin, IBM Research
- Title: Phase Transitions in Optimization Problems, and Algorithmic Implications
- Workshop: Properties of Large Graphs: From Combinatorics to Statistical Physics and Back
- Dates: October 16 - 20, 2006
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: László Lovász, Microsoft Research and Eötvös Loránd University; and Benny Sudakov, Princeton University
- Email: lovasz@cs.elte.hu, bsudakov@math.princeton.edu
- Georgia Tech Kickoff for the Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems
- Dates: November 20, 2006
- Location: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Organizers: Dana Randall, Georgia Tech
- Email: randall@cc.gatech.edu
- Workshop: Complex Networks and their Applications
- Dates: January 22 - 24, 2007
- Location: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Organizers: Fan Chung Graham, UCSD, Ashish Goel, Stanford University, Milena Mihail, Georgia Tech,
and Chris Wiggins, Columbia University
- Email: fan at ucsd.edu, ashishg at stanford.edu, mihail at cc.gatech.edu, chris.wiggins at columbia.edu
- Workshop: Phase Transitions in Random Structures and Algorithms
- Dates: March 19 - 23, 2007
- Location: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Organizers: Gregory Sorkin, IBM Research, Eric Vigoda, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Email: sorkin@watson.ibm.com, vigoda@cc.gatech.edu
- Working Group: Current Topics in Markov Chains and Phase Transitions
- Dates: March 26 - 30, 2007
- Location: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Organizers: Dana Randall and Eric Vigoda, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Email: randall@cc.gatech.edu, vigoda@cc.gatech.edu
- Workshop: Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Synthesizing Theory and Practice
- Dates: June 4 - 7, 2007
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Jim Fill, Johns Hopkins University, Jim Hobert, University of Florida, Antonietta Mira, University of Insubria (Italy), Luke Tierney, University of Iowa, Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College
- Email: jimfill@jhu.edu, jhobert@stat.ufl.edu, amira@eco.unisubria.it, luke@stat.uiowa.edu, peter.winkler@dartmouth.edu
- Workshop on Puzzling Mathematics and Mathematical Puzzles: a Gathering in Honor of Peter Winkler's 60th Birthday
- Dates: June 8 - 9, 2007
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Graham Brightwell, London School of Economics; Dana Randall and Tom Trotter, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Email: GRBrightwell@lse.ac.uk, randall@cc.gatech.edu, trotter@math.gatech.edu
- Workshop on Random Matrices
- Dates: March 17 - 19, 2008
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Van Vu, Rutgers University
- Email: vanvu at math.rutgers.edu
- Working Group: Message-Passing Algorithms
- Dates: October 13 - 17, 2008
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Riccardo Zecchina, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste; Gregory Sorkin, IBM Research
- Email: riccardo.zecchina at polito.it, sorkin@watson.ibm.com
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