DIMACS Mixer Series - October 21, 2008

Telcordia
Raritan River Software Systems Center
One Telcordia Drive (formerly 444 Hoes Lane)
Building 1
Piscataway, NJ

Tentative Program:

 10:00 - 10:45  Registration and coffee

 10:45 - 11:00  Welcome, opening remarks and introductions
		Fred Roberts, DIMACS

 11:00 - 11:40  Privacy in a networked world
                Rebecca Wright, DIMACS Deputy director

 11:45 - 12:10  Tracking malicious regions of the IP address space dynamically
                Shobha Venkataraman, Carnegie-Melon University

 12:15 -  1:30  Lunch

  1:30 -  1:55  Graph homomorphism and gradually varied functions
                Li Chen, DIMACS visitor from University of District of Columbia

  2:00 -  2:25  Locally & Universally finding significant Fourier coefficients
                Adi Akavia, DIMACS postdoc

  2:30 -  3:00  Coffee break

  3:00 -  3:25  Improved piecewise-linear approximations for minimizing separable concave cost functions over polyhedra
                Dan Stratila, RUTCOR

  3:30 -  3:55  Search via Quantum Walk
                Jeremie Roland, NEC Labs

  4:00 -  4:05  Closing remarks and announcements