Coordinator: Srijit Kamath
Faculty Advisor: Meera Sitharam
Other Faculty:
Below is a list of general goals of the Algorithms and Theory Club. We will meet once a week (time and place to be decided). The number of meetings devoted to each event (per semester) is included.
1. Discussion of problems of general interest. Anyone can feel free to post good problems. Problems (and solutions) may be emailed to me for inclusion on this page. All distinct, correct solutions will be posted a week or more after a problem is posted. Note that we do not plan to schedule regular meetings to discuss these problems. Rather all interaction will be by email and through this page.
2. 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.
3. Discussion of research problems (4 meetings). Will provide an opportunity for students and/or faculty to collaborate on projects. There will be two main presenters who volunteer to describe problems related to their research during each meeting.
4. Talks by faculty (4 meetings) and students (4 meetings) 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 (srkamath@cise.ufl.edu) and I will add you to the mailing list.
Below I will also cross-list events from other seminars that are of immediate interest to our group.
| Date
| Event
| Description
|
| 01.16.04 (Time 10:40-11:30 am, Location : Little Hall, Room 339) | Barr Systems Talk: Prof. Shing-Tung Yau | Topic: Local Mass in General Relativity |
| 01.16.04 (Time 1:55-2:45 pm, Location : CSE Building, Room 119) | Barr Systems Talk: Prof. Shing-Tung Yau | Topic: Application of Geometry to Computer Graphics and Medical Imaging |
| 01.20.04 | CISE Colloquium: Dr. Jian-Qin Liu | Topic: Molecular Computing |
| 02.04.04 | Student Talk: Pranav Dandekar | Topic: Lower Bound Problems in an Algebraic-geometry setting |
| 02.05.04 | Ohanian Lecture Series: Dr. Alfred Aho | Topic: Programming Language Compilers for the 21st Century |
| 02.18.04 | Qualifying Exam Discussion | |
| 02.25.04 | Qualifying Exam Discussion | |
| 02.06.04 (Time 12:50 pm, CSE-E118) | CISE Colloquium: Ron Goldman, Rice University | Topic: 50 yrs of Graphics: Ferment at the Foundations |
| 03.03.04 | Qualifying Exam Discussion | |
| 03.10.04 | Spring Break: No meeting | |
| 03.15.04 (Time 10:40 am, CSE404) | Faculty Candidate Talk: Gang Luo | |
| 03.17.04 (Time 10:40 am, CSE404) | Faculty Candidate Talk: Tamer Kahveci | Topic: Indexing Biological Sequences |
| 03.19.04 (Time 1:55 pm, CSE404) | Faculty Candidate Talk: Jiong Yang | Topic: Mining Biological Data |
| 04.21.04 (Time: 10:30am, Room 409, New Engineering Building) | Faculty Candidate Talk: Oscar Boykin | Topic: Physics of Information and Computation: from Quantum Computing to Large Scale Engineering Systems. |
Note: Default place - Room E305; Variable meeting time, Default time - 4:00 pm.
Request to Speakers: Please (encourage and) allow plenty of time for questions and discussion.
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