Week Of April 23 - 29, 1995

Monday, April 24, 1995

• Time: 3:00 PM

  Title: An exploration in Phylogenetic Space or How I Learned to Love the Tree

  Speaker: Dr. Peter Smouse, Cook College, Rutgers University

  Place: DIMACS Seminar Room, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

Tuesday, April 25, 1995

• Time: 4:30 PM

  Title: Rank inequalities in linear algebra and combinatorics

  Speaker: Leo Gurvits, NEC

  Place: CoRE Building, Room 431, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

Tuesday, April 25, 1995

• Time: 4:30 - 6:00 PM

  Title: Using DNA to Compute

  Speaker: Richard J. Lipton, Princeton University

  Place: 216, Moore School, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Wednesday, April 26, 1995

• Time: 10:00 AM

  Title: "Reductions, Codes, PCPs, and Inapproximability" (Or, Limitations of Current Techniques for Proving Inapproximability)

  Speaker: Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University

  Place: DIMACS Seminar Room, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

Thursday, April 27, 1995

• Time: 1:30 PM

  Title: The Mathematics of Virus Shell Assembly

  Speaker: Bonnie Berger, MIT

  Place: Room 302, Computer Science Building, Princeton University