DIMACS/CCICADA Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Fall 2014


DIMACS/CCICADA Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Fall 2014

Dates: Held approximately every other Tuesday, with additional talks scheduled Mondays

Time: Tuesdays from 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Location: DIMACS, CoRE Bldg. Room 431, Rutgers Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Host: James Abello, abello@dimacs.rutgers.edu and Fred Roberts, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Series Description

A forum for presentation and discussion of mathematical, computational, and statistical questions of interest to the DIMACS/CCICADA community and arising from research challenges in a variety of disciplines. We expect the series to be of interest to applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and statisticians, as well as researchers and practitioners in engineering, bioinformatics, epidemiology, political science, sociology, and the behavioral sciences.

Recommendations for speakers (and offers to speak) should be directed to James Abello (abello@dimacs.rutgers.edu) or Fred Roberts (froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu).

Current Schedule

Fall 2014 Calendar
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Speaker: Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University
Title: The Emergence of Money
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Speaker: David Desimone, Rutgers University
Title: Graph Cards
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Speaker: Christie Nelson, Rutgers University
Title: Utilizing Social Media to Optimize Disaster Response
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Speaker: Seth Pettie, University of Michigan
Title: Approximating Maximum Weight Matching in Linear Time
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Speaker: Nandor Sieben, DIMACS and Northern Arizona University
Title: Impartial Avoidance and Achievement Games For Generating Finite Groups
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Speaker: Maxim Zyskin, Rutgers University
Title: Modeling Oxidation Dynamics of Metal Particles
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431

Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Speaker: David Molnar, Rutgers University
Title: Sperner's Lemma and Connection Games
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431


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