DIMACS RECONNECT ‘03 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Reconnecting Teaching Faculty to the Mathematical Sciences Enterprise

August 10 - 16, 2003

 

Sunday, August 10, 2003

6:00 - 7:15 pm

Dinner at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel

7:15 - 8:00

Introduction to Reconnect
(Fred Roberts)

8:00 - 8:30

Overview of Topic:
Internet Algorithms: Towards Scalable Resource Sharing Protocols
(Greg Plaxton, University of Texas at Austin)

 

Hotel's Hospitality Suite and Library are available for writing or socializing

 


Monday, August 11, 2003

7:30 - 8:00 am

Travel to DIMACS

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast at DIMACS

9:00 - 9:50

Dynamic Network Topologies: Background

9:50 - 10:00

Break

10:00 - 10:50

Metric Spaces: Background

11:00 - 12:30

Study Time: First Set of Suggested Problems

(Refreshments Available)

12:30 - 1:15

Lunch

1:15 - 2:00

Writing at Reconnect
(Shelly Leibowitz)

2:00 - 2:30

Discussion of Selected Problems

2:30 - 2:40

Break

2:40 - 3:30

Discrete Location Theory: Background

3:30 - 3:40

Break

3:40 - 4:30

Mechanism Design: Background

4:30 - 6:00

Free Time / Travel

6:00 - 6:45

Wine and Cheese Reception, Four Points Sheraton Hotel

6:45 - 7:45

Dinner at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel

7:45 - 8:45

Panel Discussion on "People Networking"
(Shelly Leibowitz)

 

Hotel's Hospitality Suite and Library are available for writing or socializing

 


Tuesday, August 12, 2003

7:30 - 8:00 am

Travel to DIMACS

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast at DIMACS

9:00 - 9:50

Caching: Background

9:50 - 10:00

Break

10:00 - 10:50

Dynamic Network Topologies: Algorithms

10:50 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Study Time: Second Set of Suggested Problems

(Refreshments Available)

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:30

Discussion of Suggested Problems

2:30 - 2:40

Break

2:40 - 3:30

Metric Spaces: Algorithms

3:30 - 3:40

Break

3:40 - 4:30

Discrete Location Theory: Algorithms

4:30 - 5:00

Writing Assignment

5:00 - 6:00

Free time / Travel

6:00 - 7:00

Dinner at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel

7:00 - 7:30

Setting up Writing Groups
(Shelly Leibowitz)

 

Hotel's Hospitality Suite and Library are available for writing or socializing

 

 

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

7:30 - 8:00 am

Travel to DIMACS

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast at DIMACS

9:00 - 9:50

Mechanism Design: Algorithms

9:50 - 10:00

Break

10:00 - 10:50

Caching: Algorithms

10:50 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Writing Groups

12:30 - 1:40

Lunch

1:40 - 2:30

Discussion of Suggested Problems

2:30 - 2:40

Break

2:40 - 3:30

Dynamic Network Topologies:
A Locality-Aware Name Resolution Scheme

3:30 - 4:30

Writing Groups

4:30 - 6:00

Free time / Travel / Work on Suggested Problems

6:00 - 7:00

Dinner at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel

7:00 - 8:45+

Writing Groups

 

Hotel's Hospitality Suite and Library are available for writing or socializing

 

 

Thursday, August 14, 2003

7:30 - 8:00 am

Travel to DIMACS

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast at DIMACS

9:00 - 11:30

Writing Groups

11:30 - 11:40

Break

11:40 - 12:30

Metric Spaces:
A Tight Bound for Probabilistic Approximation by Tree Metrics

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

1:40 - 2:30

Discrete Location Theory:
Optimal Time Bounds for Approximate Clustering

2:30 - 2:40

Break

2:40 - 4:30

Writing Groups

4:30 - 6:00

Free time / Travel / Work on Suggested Problems

6:00 - 7:00

Dinner at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel

7:00 - 8:45+

Writing Groups

 

Hotel's Hospitality Suite and Library are available for writing or socializing

 

 

Friday, August 15, 2003

7:30 - 8:00 am

Travel to DIMACS

8:00 - 9:00

Breakfast at DIMACS

9:00 - 11:30

Writing Groups

11:30 - 11:40

Break

11:40 - 12:30

Mechanism Design:
Sharing the Cost of Multicast Transmissions

12:30 - 1:40

Lunch

1:40 - 2:30

Caching: Constant-Competitive Wide-Area Caching

2:30 - 2:40

Break

2:40 - 4:30

Writing Groups

4:30 - 6:00

Free time / Travel

6:00 - 7:00

Dinner at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel

7:00 - 8:45+

Writing Groups

 

Hotel's Hospitality Suite and Library are available for writing or socializing

 

 

Saturday, August 16, 2003

7:30 - 8:00 am

Travel to DIMACS

8:00 - 8:30

Breakfast at DIMACS

8:30 - 10:00

Prep time for Presentations

DRAFTS DUE

10:00 - 12:00

Group Presentations

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch and Closing Discussion

1:00 - 3:00

Group Presentations