DIMACS Mixer Series - September 22, 2005

DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

10:30 - 11:00  Registration and coffee 

11:00 - 11:20  Welcome, Opening Remarks and Introductions
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

11:25 - 11:55  Random discrete matrices
               Van Vu, Dept of Mathematics, Rutgers University

12:00 - 12:55  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:20  Applications of self-organizing systems to epidemiology:
               what social insect biology can teach us about humans
               Nina Fefferman, DIMACS visitor from Tufts University School of Medicine

 1:25 -  1:45  Structure and Content Scoring for XML
               Amélie Marian, Computer Science, Rutgers University

 1:50 -  2:10  Online Data Reconstruction
               Nir Y Ailon, Princeton Graduate student

 2:15 -  2:35  Placing Relay Nodes for Intra-Domain Path Diversity
               Meeyoung Cha, DIMACS visitor from Division of Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Korea 

 2:40 -  3:10  Break

 3:15 -  3:45  Oscillations with TCP-like Congestion Control in Networks of Queues
	       Matthew Andrews, Bell Labs

 3:50 -  4:20  Combinatorial descriptions of geometric invariants
               Anders Buch, Dept of Mathematics, Rutgers University 
 
 4:25 -  4:30  Closing Remarks