DIMACS invites you to its Fall Mixer Series. All DIMACS members, visitors, postdocs, and students are invited to join us on Monday, October 6 at AT&T's new site at Florham Park.
The program will begin at 10:30 in room B104 at AT&T Labs, which is near the front entrance where visitors to AT&T will have to sign in. Directions to Florham Park are listed below.
In order to plan for the luncheon and to notify the guards that you are coming, please RSVP to David Johnson (dsj@research.att.com). Those who do not RSVP are still be welcome, but we would appreciate your letting us know your intentions in advance.
If there are any questions concerning the DIMACS Mixer Series, please feel free to contact Paul Dreyer at pdreyer@dimacs.rutgers.edu. We look forward to meeting you all this fall at the mixers!
Program
10:30 Coffee
10:45 - 10:50 Fred Roberts
DIMACS Director, Rutgers University
Opening Remarks
10:50 - 11:40 Bernard Chazelle
Princeton University
"Towards a Resolution of the Minimum
Spanning Tree Problem"
11:50 - 12:15 Vincenzo Liberatore
Rutgers University
"On Local Register Allocation"
12:15 - 12:45 Anuj Puri
Bell Labs
"Verification of Real-time Systems"
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:10 Richard Desper
Rutgers University
"Nearly Tight Bounds on the
Learnability of Evolution"
2:10 - 2:35 Z Sweedyk
University of Pennsylvania
"A Quasi-polynomial Time
Algorithm for Sampling Words
from a Context-Free Language"
2:35 - 3:00 Michael Krivelevich
Institute for Advanced Study
"Finding a Large Hidden Clique in
a Random Graph"
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Directions to Florham Park
From Route 287
Take Route 287 to Exit 36A (Morris Avenue)
Proceed East to Highway 510 (Columbia Turnpike)
Continue East on Columbia Turnpike to Park Avenue
Make a right onto Park Avenue
Continue to the fourth traffic light
Make a left into the Exxon complex
Stop at main gate and then follow the small bumper
sticker sized signs to the AT&T Building (Building 103)
From the George Washington Bridge
Take NJ Turnpike (95) South to Route 78 West (Exit 14)
Continue with directions from 78 West
From the Garden State Parkway
From the North: Take Garden State Parkway to 78 West.
This becomes 24 West.
From the South: Take Garden State Parkway to 78 (East) - use
rightmost toll booths.
Immediately take first exit on 78 East for U-turn to 78 West
From Newark Airport
Take 78 West
From 78 West
Stay right on 78 West, exiting to 24 West
Take 24 West to 510 W (Exit 2A Morristown) to Park Avenue (1st light)
Make a left turn onto Park Avenue
Continue to the fourth traffic light
Make a left into the Exxon complex
Stop at main gate and then follow the ver small bumper-sticker
sized signs to the AT&T Building (Building 103)
From Murray Hill
Leave from the front of MH
Right onto Mountain Avenue
Left onto South Avenue at the first light
As you cross the main intersection (Springfield Ave.), South Avenue
becomes Passic Avenue
Follow Passaic out of New Providence as it bears right
Left onto Southern Blvd. at the light (the base of a steep hill)
As you continue on Southern Blvd. it becomes Green Village Road
as you enter Madison.
Continue on green Village until you reach a "T" intersection
(just after you have driven under the train tracks). This is Main
Street (Route 124)
in Madison.
At the "T" turn left and then bear right (at the first light) onto
Park Avenue.
Continue on Park until you get to the Main Entrance to Exxon
Make a right into the Exxon complex
Stop at main gate and then follow the signs to the AT&T Building
(Building 103)
(These signs are not particularly clear. They are small bumper sticker
size signs on the directional markers)
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