Georgia Tech Kickoff for the Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems

November 20, 2006
Georgia Institute of Technolgy

Organizers:
Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technolgy, randall@cc.gatech.edu
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems.

Workshop Program:

Monday, November 20, 2006

 1:05 - 1:15  Introduction and Welcome
              Dana Randall, Georgia Tech  

 1:15 - 2:00  Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-Optimal Connection 
              between Sampling and Counting Partition Functions
              Eric Vigoda, Georgia Tech  

 2:05 - 2:50  Epidemics in Technological and Social Networks: 
              The Downside of Six Degrees of Separation 
              Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research  

 2:55 - 3:45  Break and Reception  

 3:45 - 4:30  Convergent Sequences of Dense Graphs
              Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research  

 4:35 - 5:20  Algorithmic Performance in Complex Networks
              Milena Mihail, Georgia Tech  



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