DIMACS invites you to its Fall Mixer Series. All DIMACS members, visitors, postdocs, and students are invited to join us on Friday, September 18, at the DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, CoRE Building, Busch Campus. The program will begin with a lunch, welcome and introductions at 12:30 pm. The purpose of the mixer is to introduce the new postdocs, graduate students and DIMACS visitors to each other and to DIMACS members from the different DIMACS institutions.
In order to plan for the luncheon please RSVP to Pat Pravato (pravato@dimacs.rutgers.edu) by Wednesday, September 16. 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 Julia Abrahams at abrahams@dimacs.rutgers.edu. We look forward to meeting you all this fall at the mixers!
Program
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch, Welcome and Introductions
1:15 - 2:15 Peter N. Yianilos
NEC
"Sequence Comparison in Theory and Practice"
2:15 - 2:45 Ryan Martin
Rutgers University
"The Shannon Capacity and Ramsey Theory"
2:45 - 3:15 Greg Perkins
Rutgers University
"Wireless Radio Wave Propagation Prediction"
3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:15 Gruia Calinescu
Rutgers University
"An Improved Approximation Algorithm for MULTIWAY CUT"
4:15 - 4:45 Victoria Ungureanu
Rutgers University
"A Mechanism for Establishing Policies for Electronic
Commerce"
4:45 - 5:15 Xin Guo
Rutgers University
"Is the market complete?:
Towards a new model for the stock market"
5:15 End
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