DIMACS Research Programs:

Special Years and Foci: These focused research programs are relatively long term programs - usually at least a year - that focus on topics that have opportunities for rapid development, outreach to other communities in research and industry, and significant research challenges. These programs have a variety of visitor, postdoctoral fellowship, workshop, and seminar opportunities.

• Currently active programs are:
  • 2018-2020 Special Focus on Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
  • 2016-2018 Big Data Initiative on Privacy and Security
  • 2015-2018 Special Focus on Cryptography
  
  The pages for each program have information about participating.
  
  
• Past Special Years:
  • 2012-2017 Special Focus on Energy and Algorithms
  • 2012-2017 Special Focus on Information Sharing and Dynamic Data Analysis
  • 2011-2017 Special Focus on Cybersecurity
  • 2007-2014 Special Focus on Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet
  • 2010-2013 Special Focus on Algorithmic Decision Theory
  • 2008-2011 Special Focus on Hardness of Approximation
  • 2004-2011 Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology
  • 2002-2011 Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology
  • 2006-2010 Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems
  • 2003-2009 Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy
  • 2004-2008 Special Focus on Computation and the Socio-Economic Sciences
  • 2001-2006 Special Focus on Data Analysis and Mining
  • 2002-2005 Special Focus on Computational Geometry and Applications
  • 2001-2005 Special Focus on Computational Information Theory and Coding
  • 2000-2004 Special Focus on Computational Molecular Biology
  • 2000-2003 Special Focus on Next Generation Networks Technologies and Applications
  • 2000-2003 Special Focus on Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer and Information Science
  • 1999-2001 Special Year on Computational Intractability
  • 1998-2000 Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization
  • 1997-1999 Special Year on Massive Data Sets
  • 1997-1999 Special Focus on DNA Computing
  • 1996-2000 Special Focus on Networks
  • 1996-1998 Focus on Discrete Probability
  • 1995-1996 Special Year on Logic and Algorithms
  • 1994-2000 Special Focus on Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology
  • 1993-1994 Special Year on Massively Parallel Computing
  • 1992-1993 Special Year on Combinatorial Optimization
  • 1991-1992 Special Year on Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • 1990-1991 Special Year on Complexity Theory of Interactive Computation
  • 1989-1990 Special Year on Discrete and Computational Geometry

Workshops: DIMACS Workshops occur throughout the year, both as part of the focused programs and as individual workshops. Each workshop listing has information about participating.

Implementation Challenges: The DIMACS Implementation Challenges address questions of determining realistic algorithm performance. Topics are announced about a year in advance and organizers help guide projects. A workshop and WWW site for code, data sets and other artifacts culminates the project.

DIMACS Research and Education Institute: The DREI is a three week summer institute for researchers and teachers, with follow-ups in the academic year. The DREI stresses vertical intergration of the mathematical communities from high school through researchers.

The DIMACS Connect Institute: offers a two week summer program of workshops for researchers and a four week summer program for high school teachers of matehematics and computer science (with a two week follow up program in the following summer). The programs are designed to facilitate collaborations between researchers and educators and foster understanding of each others' work and needs.

DIMACS Reconnect: exposes faculty teaching undergraduates to the mathematical sciences research enterprise by introducing them to a current research topic relevant to the classroom through a series of lectures by a leading expert and involving them in writing materials useful in the classroom. Participants have the possibility of following up by preparing these materials for publication in the DIMACS Educational Modules Series.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Each summer DIMACS hosts 5 or more undergraduates for an 8 week REU Program. The program has participants from many states working with DIMACS members from Rutgers, Princeton, AT&T Labs - Research, Applied Communication Sciences, NEC Laboratories America and Nokia Bell Labs.

Special Research Projects: DIMACS is the home to research projects that further scientific progress and applications in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. These projects allow collaborations among the member institutions as well as other academic, industry, or scientific partners.

• DIMACS/DIMATIA/Renyi Tripartite Partnership
• LINK has developed a programming and visualization environment for discrete mathematics, graphs and combinatorics.
• Rutgers University Homeland Security Research Initiative (RUHSRI) was founded to coordinate homeland security research on all the Rutgers campuses and to take a visible, leadership role in this area locally, in the State of New Jersey, and nationally.
• Simulations of Integrated Communications Systems is developing software and theory to support simulating the behavior of heterogeneous, large scale commununications systems.
• Scalable Self-Organizing Simulations (S3)

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