DIMACS Mixer Series - September 19, 2007

DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

10:00 - 10:30 Registration and coffee 

10:30 - 10:45 Welcome, Opening Remarks and Introductions
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

10:45 - 11:25 Approximate Dynamic Programming for High-Dimensional Applications
              Warren Powell, Princeton University

11:30 - 11:50 Private Inference Control For Aggregate Database Queries
              Geetha Jagannathan, Rutgers CSs

11:55 - 12:15 Sums of powers of Polynomials
              Neeraj Kayal, IAS postdoc

12:20 -  1:30 Lunch 

 1:30 -  2:00 An overview of Sequential Monte Carlo methods and its applications
              Rong Chen, Rutgers stat department
 
 2:05 -  2:30 Surveying Three Problems: Analysis of Security Protocols, Parallels 
              Between Classes of Permutations, and Theory for Network Routing
              Aaron Jaggard, Research Professor  
 
 2:35 -  3:05 Coffee break

 3:05 -  3:30 Scheduling and Graph Problems in Implementation of Diagnosis Model
              Louis-Phillipe Kronek, Rutcor

 3:35 -  3:55 List-coloring the square of a subcubic graph
              Dan Cranston, DIMACS - Bell Labs postdoc

 4:00 -  4:30 Some Machine Learning Problems on the Web
              Tong Zhang, Rutgers Stat Dept