From Erdos to Algorithms (Applications of the ``Probabilistic Method'')
A joint DIMACS - DIMATIA workshop


June 8 - 10, 1998
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Organizers:

Jarik Nesetril, DIMATIA, Co-Chair, nesetril@kam.ms.mff.cuni.cz
Joel Spencer, NYU, Co-Chair, spencer@cs.nyu.edu
Ron Graham, AT&T Labs - Research, rlg@research.att.com
Jiri Matousek, DIMATIA
Pavel Valtr, DIMATIA valtr@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Preliminary Program of Workshop:

Monday, June 8
9-9:50 Vera Sos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
$\{n\alpha\}$ sequences: from Erd\H os to algorithms.

10:30-11 Joseph Beck (Rutgers)
Multidimensional tic-tac-toe

11-11:30 Lenore Cowen (Johns Hopkins)
Randomized Algorithms for Approximate Distance

11:30-12 Mike Molloy (U. Toronto)
TBA

2:00-2:30 Prasad Tetali (Georgia Tech)
$\lambda_infty$, vertex expansion and concentration."

2:30-3:00 Ehud Friedgut (Hebrew Univeristy/IAS)
Ramsey properties of Random Graphs

3:00-3:30 Joel Spencer (Courant Institute)
Report on new B bound of Srinivasan and Radhakrishnanz

4:00-4:30 Van Vu (Yale)
Small complete arcs in finite projective planes.

4:30-5:00 Josep Diaz (Barcelona)
Layout problems on Random graphs

Tuesday, June 9
9-9:50 Laszlo Lovasz (Yale)
Flows andRandom Walks

10-10:30 David Karger (MIT)
Some Probabilistic Methods for Cuts in Graphs

10:30-11 Alan Frieze (Carnegie Mellon)
Random minimum length spanning trees in regular graphs

11-11:30 Lucek Kucera (Charles/Prague)
Random Graphs in Expected Case Analysis

2-2:30 Fan Chung (U. Penn)
TBA

2:30-3:00 Pavel Valtr (Charles/Prague)
Several Results Related to the Erdos-Szekeres Theorem

3:00-3:30 Greg Sorkin (IBM Yorktown Heights)
The Random Assignment Problem

Wednesday, June 10
9-9:30 Michael Krivelevich (IAS)
The Choice Number of Dense Random Graphs

9:30-10 Yoshihara Kohayakawa (IME/Brazil)
Random Sperner-type Results

10:30-11 Jeff Kahn (Rutgers)
TBA

11-11:30 Jeong-Han Kim (Microsoft)
TBA

2-2:30 Peter Winkler (Lucent)
Random Colorings of a Tree

2:30-3 Gyorgy Elekes (Eotvos/Budapest)
TBA

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