REU Summer 2005 Calendar

Monday, June 6 DIMACS/DIMATIA/MATH REU Program begins.
Tuesday, June 7 Orientation Dinner
Time and location: 5:00pm in the DIMACS Lounge, Room 401
Tuesday, June 7 Housing Orientation
Time and location: 8:00pm in the Richardson Apartments Community Center
Thursday, June 9 REU Workshop
Topic: Panel on Graduate School in Math/Computer Science
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 431
Saturday, June 11 Barbeque/Cookout
Time and location: 6pm, behind Nichols Apartments, (see Lara Pudwell for details)
Tuesday, June 14 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Diane Maclagan, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Title: The card game Set.
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 301
Thursday, June 16 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Dominique Foata, Institut Lothaire - Strasbourg, France
Title: Combinatorics and Special Functions: the Hermite Polynomials
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 431
Thursday, June 16 REU Workshop
Topic: How to Give a Presentation
Speakers: Scott Schneider and Lara Pudwell, Mathematics Graduate Students, Rutgers University
Time and location: 3-4 pm, CoRE 431
Monday, June 20 Telecordia Visit
*depart from CoRE 8am
Tuesday, June 21 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Endre Boros, Professor of Operations Research, RUTCOR, Rutgers University
Title: How Good (or Bad) Can Stable Marriages Be?
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 301
Thursday, June 23 Project Presentations
Time and location: 1 pm - 5 pm, CoRE 431
Friday, June 24 Project Presentations
Time and location: 1 pm - 5 pm, CoRE 431
Friday, June 24 Movie Night
Time and location: 7-10pm, Richardson Apartments Community Center
Tuesday, June 28 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Sagan, DIMACS, Michigan State University
Title: Maximal Independent Sets in Graphs
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 301
Tuesday, July 5 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf, DIMACS postdoc
Title: Persistent Social Structures
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 431
Wednesday, July 6 Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Labs
Time and location: 5 pm, RWJMS - Dean's Conference Room

*NOTE: you should have RSVPed via email for this talk if you plan to eat the dinner provided by the RISE REU
Monday, July 11 IBM Visit
*depart from CoRE 8am
Tuesday, July 12 REU Seminar
Speaker: Vince Vatter, Mathematics Graduate Student, Rutgers University
Title: Packing densities of permutations
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 431
Thursday, July 14 REU Workshop
Topic: What to Expect in Prague
Speakers: DIMATIA REU students
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, CoRE 431
Friday, July 15 Pizza/Games Night
Time and location: 6-8pm, Richardson Apartments Community Center
Wednesday, July 20 Lafayette REU Presentations
Time and location: 10:30am - 12 pm, CoRE 301

Final Project Presentations
Time and location: 1 pm - 5:30 pm, CoRE 301
Thursday, July 21 Final Project Presentations
Time and location: 1 pm - 5 pm, CoRE 301
Thursday, July 21 Farewell Dinner
Time and location: 6 pm, CoRE 401
Saturday, July 23 DIMACS/DIMATIA students depart for Prague.
Tuesday, July 26 REU Seminar
Speaker: Ian Levitt, Mathematics Graduate Student, Rutgers University
Title: Linear Programming Duality
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, CoRE 301
Friday, July 29 End of DIMACS REU Program
Wednesday, August 10 End of DIMATIA REU Program


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