Algorithms and Theory Club

Coordinator: Yong Zhou

Faculty Advisor: Meera Sitharam

Other Faculty:

Sartaj Sahni

Sanjay Ranka

Richard Newman

Anand Rangarajan

Tim Davis

Alin Dobra

Arunava Banerjee

Alper Ungor

News and Information on Related graduate courses:

a) News:

    09/09: Starting from 2006, Formal Languages and Computation Theory will be offered once per year. Probably only spring semester.

b) Links to related graduate courses:

    Interesting courses           Could be interesting courses

Time and place: Every Friday 4:00pm to 5:00pm in E305.

General goals:

1. Discussion of Ph. D qualifiers exam problems including questions that have previously appeared on the exam. Questions from algorithms and theory will be discussed. There will be 4 meetings and these will be scheduled close to the exam dates for the semester. Here are some strategies for working on qualifiers.

2. Discussion of research problems. Will provide an opportunity for students and/or faculty to collaborate on projects. There will be one main presenter who volunteers to describe problems related to their research during each meeting.

3. Talks by faculty and students on research problems and special topics.

Note: If you are interested in participating in the activities of the club and wish to receive email about upcoming events please send me an email (yozhou@cise.ufl.edu ) and I will add you to the mailing list.  

Request to Speakers: Please (encourage and) allow plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Talks:  

Date


Event


Description


09/02

No meeting

09/09 (G2V2 seminar, Fri, 1:55pm, E404)

Faculty Talk: Jeff Ho

Recovering the geometry of an object from sequence of images. Abstract

09/16 (G2V2 seminar, Fri, 1:55pm, E404)

Faculty Talk: Jeff Ho

Recovering the geometry of an object from sequence of images (cont.). Abstract

09/23 

Student talk: Erwin Jansen, Hen-I Yang

Automated Verification of Proper Choreography Implementation. Abstract

09/30

(To be arranged)

10/04(Math Combinatorics Seminar, Tue    1:55pm, Little Hall 368 ) Faculty Talk: Alper Ungor Triangulations. Abstract

10/07

Homecoming Break. No meeting

10/14

Qualifying Exam Discussion

10/21

Qualifying Exam Discussion

10/28

Faculty Talk: Hua Wang

The Leech tree and distinct distance tree. Abstract

11/04 Qualifying Exam Solution Discussion
11/11 Veterans Holiday Break. No meeting
11/18 (G2V2 seminar, Fri, 1:55pm, E404 ) Faculty Talk: Meera Sitharam
11/25 Thanksgiving Break. No meeting
12/02 (G2V2 seminar, Fri, 1:55pm, E404 ) Student Talk: Heping Gao

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