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Jun 15 2015

Reconnect 2015: Mathematical and Computational Tools for Social Networks with Applications to Homeland Security

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Monday, June 15, 2015 - Sunday, June 21, 2015
7:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Maurino Bautista
A social network simply described is a set of actors or points or nodes or agents that may have relationships or edges or ties with one another Networks can have few or many actors and one or more kinds of relations between pairs of actors To build a useful understanding
Jun 11 2015

DIMACS and IEEE Working Group on Efficient and Scalable Cyber-security using Algorithms Protected by Electricity (ESCAPE)

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Thursday, June 11, 2015 - Friday, June 12, 2015
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): W. Konrad Vesey | Kurt Rohloff | Greg Shannon
The best cyber technologies provide strong guarantees on security and privacy properties and require substantial computation to establish a property or to break a property For example system verification techniques require exhaustive or deep searches in very large state spaces and encryption technologies are built around computational hardness assumptions for
Jun 10 2015

Conditional Lower Bounds

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Tsvi Kopelowitz - University of Michigan
Organizer(s): James Abello
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Jun 05 2015

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Management of Natural Resources

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Friday, June 5, 2015 - Sunday, June 7, 2015
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Jon Conrad | Catherine Roberts | Avner Friedman | Fred Roberts | Suzanne Lenhart | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
To maintain the long term well being of the global population management of the world s natural resources must emphasize conservation and renewal over depletion and spending Natural resource management is a broad topic with both national and international policy implications This workshop will investigate challenges for the mathematical sciences
May 15 2015

DIMACS Workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking (SCIS)

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Friday, May 15, 2015 - Saturday, May 16, 2015
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Rob Capra | Chirag Shah | Preben Hansen
Increasingly people are utilizing collaboration and sharing technologies to address needs in their work and personal lives Information plays a key role in todayâ s world and many problems require us to use social and collaborative ties to search for and locate information Examples range from corporate teams doing business
May 14 2015

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Natural Disasters

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Thursday, May 14, 2015 - Saturday, May 16, 2015
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Eva Lee | John Mitchell | Fred Roberts | Carlos Castillo-Chavez | Lora Billings | William (Al) Wallace
No part of the world is impervious to natural disaster Epidemics earthquakes floods hurricanes drought tornadoes wildfires tsunamis and extreme temperatures routinely take their toll Mathematical sciences can help in predicting monitoring and responding to such events and mitigating their effects Responding to Natural Disasters The workshop will study mathematical
Apr 02 2015

DIMACS Workshop on Coding-Theoretic Methods for Network Security

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Thursday, April 2, 2015 - Saturday, April 4, 2015
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Mahdi Cheraghchi | Salim El Rouayheb | Emina Soljanin
The data explosion we witness in today fs digital world reinforces the concerns about security and privacy in networks Coding theoretic techniques such as network coding and erasure coding for distributed storage have been recently proposed and partially adopted in practice in order to reduce the cost incurred by data
Jan 12 2015

DIMACS Workshop on The Mathematics of Post-Quantum Cryptography

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Monday, January 12, 2015 - Friday, January 16, 2015
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Joachim Rosenthal | Tanja Lange | Elisa Gorla | Nigel Boston

Post quantum cryptography aims to prepare the world for a scenario in which the attacker is in posession of a quantum computer In this scenario ECC based and RSA based cryptography are broken by variants of Shor s algorithm in about the same time that it takes to execute them

Dec 05 2014

11th DIMACS Implementation Challenge: Steiner Tree Problems

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Friday, December 5, 2014 - Saturday, December 6, 2014
8:40 AM - 3:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): David S. Johnson | Thorsten Koch | Renato Werneck | Martin Zachariasen
The 11th Implementation Challenge is dedicated to the study of Steiner Tree problems broadly defined bringing together research in both theory and practice For details on the Implementation Challenge and its results please visit the primary website for the 11th Implementation Challenge Broadly speaking the goal of a Steiner Tree
Oct 24 2014

CERI/DIMACS Workshop on Streaming Graph Algorithms (WSGA)

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Friday, October 24, 2014 - Saturday, October 25, 2014
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Steve Plimpton | Jonathan Berry | Muthu Muthukrishnan | Seshadhri Comandur | Cynthia Phillips | Ali Pinar
The Cyber Engineering Research Institute CERI of Sandia National Laboratories is partnering with The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science DIMACS to host an invitation only workshop on streaming graph algorithms on Oct 23 24 2014 Streaming analytics process ever increasing deluges of real world data to manipulate
Oct 12 2014

Fusion Fest: Marrying Methods to Solve Real-world Problems

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Sunday, October 12, 2014 - Sunday, October 12, 2014
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Ying Sun | Carole Kantor | Bing Bai | Keith Taggart
Fusion Fest celebrates Paul Kantor s distinguished career at Rutgers and his 75th year His work over the years has wandered from theoretical physics through decision making and information retrieval to collaborative searching and issues in homeland security It is hard to find a unifying theme but there are a
Oct 10 2014

DIMACS Conference on Challenges of Identifying Integer Sequences

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Friday, October 10, 2014 - Saturday, October 11, 2014
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Susanna Cuyler | Eugene Fiorini | Charles Greathouse | Brian Nakamura | Lara Pudwell | Vinay A. Vaishampayan | Doron Zeilberger
The On Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences OEIS began in 1996 with 10 000 sequences The database was started by Neil Sloane in 1964 when as a graduate student he began collecting integer sequences on file cards and was published by Academic Press in 1973 as A Handbook of Integer
Sep 30 2014

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Data-aware Energy Use

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - Thursday, October 2, 2014
8:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Balarkrishnan (Murali) Narayanaswamy | Fred Roberts | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Zico Kolter | Rajesh Gupta | Mario Berges | Yuvraj Agarwal
Increasing demand and expensive supply make efficient resource allocation and optimal decision making critical in energy systems We need to make good choices about today s energy investments because they will be with us for a long time Data can help us make better choices if we can surmount concomitant
Sep 20 2014

DIMACS Workshop in Honor of Alan Hoffman

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Saturday, September 20, 2014 - Sunday, September 21, 2014
9:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Baruch Schieber | Bill Pulleyblank | Jon Lee | Don Coppersmith | Endre Boros | Bill Cook | Vasek Chvatal
Alan Hoffman turned 90 this year and this scientific workshop is honoring him with a list of invited talks Confirmed invited speakers include Richard Brualdi Vasek Chvatal Don Coppersmith Jack Edmonds Jeff Kahn Dick Karp Tom McCormick Bill Pulleyblank Paul Seymour and David Williamson
Jul 22 2014

Metaphors and (Mathematical) Models in Science and Poetry

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Philip Holmes - Princeton University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
I will describe some of the similarities and differences between the practices of applied mathematics and poetry, illustrating with examples. I will also reflect on a career in research, arguing
Jul 21 2014

DIMACS Workshop on Multicore and Cryptography

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Monday, July 21, 2014 - Wednesday, July 23, 2014
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Wayne Patterson | Susanne Wetzel | Christian Bischof | Johannes Buchmann

Over the last few years multi many core equipment has become more and more ubiquitous Recently multi core processors have even been introduced in modern mobile phones A performance improvement in today s computing equipment is no longer due to increases in clock rates but is achieved through the adding

Jul 15 2014

Ramsey Theory Without Words

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Kellen Myers - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Ramsey theory is a fascinating and highly-connected area of study in mathematics. Its problems are often easy to pose but surprisingly difficult to answer. I will introduce some of the
Jul 08 2014

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Kostas Bekris - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
Robots are becoming increasingly capable in terms of their mechanical, sensing and computational capabilities. In order to be effective, however, in solving many physical tasks like collision-free motion and manipulation
Jul 01 2014

The Fast Fourier Transform

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Vidit Nanda - University of Pennsylvania
Organizer(s): Gene Fiorini
It has been called the most important algorithm of our lifetime entire industries rely on it for survival and dedicated hardware is manufactured with the sole purpose of running it.
Jun 28 2014

CEYLA/DIMACS Youth Leadership Training Workshop

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Saturday, June 28, 2014 - Saturday, June 28, 2014
8:30 AM - 4:15 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar | Eugene Fiorini
This one day Leadership Training Workshop will expose middle and high school students to various math and science related activities along with some essential collaboration and leadership skills Specific topics include challenges facing our planet and how to leverage mathematical sciences to address these challenges and create a sustainable environment