DIMACS 1996-1997 Special Year on Networks will hold a Networks Day of talks by distinguished lecturers to start the year's activities. These talks will be held at the CORE Building on Busch Campus of Rutgers University. The talks are free and open to the public.
9:15 - 9:50 Coffee and Pastries at DIMACS
9:50 - 10:00 Opening Remarks
Fred Roberts, David Johnson
10:00 - 11:00 Scott Shenker
Xerox PARC
"Incentive Issues in Networks"
11:00 - 12:00 Baruch Awerbuch
Johns Hopkins University
"Online Algorithms for Maximal Dense Trees
and Selective Multicast"
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch at DIMACS
1:30 - 2:30 Dan Bienstock
Columbia University
"Computational Experience with Network Design Algorithms"
2:30 - 3:30 Matthew Franklin
AT&T Labs
"Verifiable Secret Sharing in Electronic Commerce"
If you plan to attend, please send email to Pat Pravato indicating your
intent to assist the center to plan for space and catering.
Send the message to pravato@dimacs.rutgers.edu.
Please see the Special Year WWW pages at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/index-networks.html for updated information about the exact start time of the program, abstracts, and other information; DIMACS WWW pages at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Research/ has additional information about the special year program as well as other DIMACS programs.