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Nov 02 2024

CCICADA Fall Retreat November 1, 2024

Information: Saturday, November 2, 2024 - Saturday, November 2, 2024; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Fred Roberts; Description
SAVE THE DATE The CCICADA Fall Retreat will be on November 1 2024 Date Time Friday November 1 2024 12 00 1 30 pm Where Lounge Room 401 Computing Research Education Building CoRE Rutgers the State University of New Jersey Piscataway New Jersey Lunch will be served Guest speaker Dr

Nov 02 2024

CCICADA Fall Retreat 2024

Information: Saturday, November 2, 2024 - Saturday, November 2, 2024; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM; Type: Workshops; Description
Title Our Technology Future and Homeland Security Guest Speaker Dr Mitch Erickson Department of Homeland Security retired Time 12 00 1 30 pm Abstract Technology is progressing at an ever increasing pace Within the homeland security space we will need tools to help stop the bad guys enable the good

Oct 31 2024

Finding the Jewel in the Lotus

Information: Thursday, October 31, 2024; 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar; Presenter(s): Peter Cameron - University of St. Andrews; Description
There has been a lot of recent work about graphs defined on groups so as to reflect some of the group structure; the most famous is the commuting graph, where

Oct 30 2024

Randomized Rounding Approaches to Online Allocation, Sequencing, and Matching

Information: Wednesday, October 30, 2024; 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar; Presenter(s): Will Ma - Columbia University; Description
Randomized rounding is a technique that was originally used to approximate hard offline discrete optimization problems from a mathematical programming relaxation. Since then it has also been used to approximately

Oct 30 2024

The Small Quasikernel Conjecture

Information: Wednesday, October 30, 2024; 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Sam Spiro - Rutgers University; Description
Given a digraph $D$, we say that a set of vertices $Q\subseteq V(D)$ is a quasikernel if $Q$ is an independent set and if every vertex of $D$ can be

Oct 28 2024

Spectral Bounds on the Independence Number

Information: Monday, October 28, 2024; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Rutgers Discrete Mathematics Seminar; Presenter(s): Yuval Wigderson - ETH Zurich; Description
Spectral graph theory provides us with a wide array of surprising results which relate graph-theoretic parameters to linear-algebraic parameters of associated matrices. Among the most well-known and useful of these

Oct 24 2024

The Experimental Geometer: How John Wallis Saved Mathematics for the Royal Society

Information: Thursday, October 24, 2024; 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar; Presenter(s): Amir Alexander - University of California, Los Angeles; Description
The members of the early Royal Society championed an experimental approach to the study of nature as the proper path to the advancement of knowledge and the preservation of civic

Oct 23 2024

Nearly Optimal List Labeling

Information: Wednesday, October 23, 2024; 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar; Presenter(s): Hanna Komlos - New York University (NYU); Description
The list-labeling problem captures the basic task of storing a dynamically changing set of up to N elements in sorted order in an array of size M=cN where c is

Oct 23 2024

Greedy Algorithms

Information: Wednesday, October 23, 2024; 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Minhao Bai - Rutgers University; Description
I'm going to briefly introduce greedy algorithms. It's commonly used in a lot of problem-solving situations to make things easy. In most cases, we use it very heuristically. But why

Oct 21 2024

Cutoff for the Biased Random Transposition Shuffle

Information: Monday, October 21, 2024; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Rutgers Discrete Mathematics Seminar; Presenter(s): Alan Yan - Harvard University; Description
The biased random transposition shuffle is a natural generalization of the classical random transposition shuffle studied by Diaconis and Shahshahani. In this variation, rather than selecting two cards uniformly at

Oct 21 2024

DIMACS Workshop on Spreading on Social Networks Theory and Applications

Information: Monday, October 21, 2024 - Wednesday, October 23, 2024; 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): David Pennock | Will Tracy | Simon Levin | Fred Roberts | Giuseppe Ferro | Lazaros Gallos | Emma Zajdela; Description
Understanding the dynamics of how physical and social processes spread on complex networks is a multifaceted question with theoretical and empirical implications From an application perspective this question is relevant in many fields from the spread of disease opinions and innovation to environmental issues For example identifying methods to facilitate

Oct 18 2024

DIMACS Tribute to the Many Facets of Fred Roberts

Information: Friday, October 18, 2024 - Friday, October 18, 2024; 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Alexis TsoukiÃ¡s | Tamra Carpenter | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | David Pennock; Description
The DIMACS Tribute to the Many Facets of Fred Roberts aka FredFest is a celebration of Fred s contributions to both research and education in fields ranging from discrete mathematics to mathematical biology sustainability homeland security and the social sciences Along the way we will toast his 80th and 81st

Oct 17 2024

Dominique Foata, A Classical Combinatorist Par Excellence

Information: Thursday, October 17, 2024; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar; Presenter(s): Doron Zeilberger - Rutgers University; Organizer(s): Doron Zeilberger; Description
Dominique Foata (b. Oct. 12, 1934) had a profound influence on combinatorics. Some of his seminal work will be outlined. Note: This talk is also scheduled in Partion Theory, q-series,

Oct 16 2024

Latin Squares, Take 2

Information: Wednesday, October 16, 2024; 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Aurora Hiveley - Rutgers University; Description
If you were in Jeff's graph theory about a month ago, you may recall learning about an application of Hall's Theorem using embeddings of Latin rectangles into Latin squares. If

Oct 16 2024

The Online Submodular Assignment Problem

Information: Wednesday, October 16, 2024; 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar; Presenter(s): Sherry Sarkar - Carnegie Mellon University; Description
Online resource allocation is a rich and varied field. One of the most well-known problems in this area is online bipartite matching, introduced in 1990 by Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani

Oct 15 2024

DIMACS 2024 Workshop on Forecasting

Information: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - Tuesday, October 15, 2024; 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): David Pennock | Raf Frongillo | Jens Witkowski; Description
Following the successful iterations at EC 2017 and DIMACS 2021 we seek submissions to the DIMACS 2024 Workshop on Forecasting The workshop will be held on October 14 2024 at Rutgers University New Brunswick NJ co located with the 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory ADT 2024 We welcome

Oct 15 2024

The 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2024)

Information: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - Thursday, October 17, 2024; 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Nicholas Mattei | Rupert Freeman | David Pennock | Lirong Xia; Description
The 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory ADT 2024 focuses on algorithmic decision theory broadly defined seeking to bring together researchers and practitioners coming from diverse areas of Computer Science Economics and Operations Research in order to improve the theory and practice of modern decision support The conference topics

Oct 11 2024

Data Analytics at USCIS Perspectives that are 5 years out of date

Information: Friday, October 11, 2024; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | CCICADA Seminar Series in Homeland Security; Presenter(s): Anthony Kassekert - FDIC Office of the Inspector General; Description
Bio: Tony Kassekert is currently the Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) at the FDIC Office of the Inspector General where he focuses on supporting audits and criminal investigations of

Oct 10 2024

A Nasty Surprise in a Sequence, and Other Recent OEIS Stories

Information: Thursday, October 10, 2024; 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar; Presenter(s): Neil Sloane - OEIS Foundation; Description
It was a busy summer. 1. Having raised the necessary endowment, the OEIS is now looking to hire a managing editor. 2. Dampening Down Diverging Series: making the harmonic series

Oct 10 2024

Worst-Case VCG Redistribution Mechanism Design Based on the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Information: Thursday, October 10, 2024; 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Computer Science/DIMACS Joint Seminar; Presenter(s): Mingyu Guo - University of Adelaide, Australia; Description
We study worst-case VCG redistribution mechanism design for the public project problem. We use a multilayer perceptron (MLP) with ReLU activation to model the payment function and use mixed integer

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