comeonAlgorithms and Theory Club

Coordinators: Yong Zhou, Heping Gao

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


01/20

No meeting

01/23: Matherly Hall (MAT 18)
4:00PM - 5:00PM.

BARR TALK by Jack Dongarra
University Distinguished Professor
University of Tennessee

An Overview of High Performance Computing and Self Adapting Numerical Software.
Abstract

02/10

Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy

 

An algorithm to k-CNF SAT Problem
Abstract

02/14: Tuesday, 1:55 pm, 339 Little Hall

George E. Andrews (PSU, Math)

Serendipity and partitions with initial repetitions

Abstract

02/16: Thursday, 1:45 pm, 368 Little Hall

Hyeong-Kwan Ju (Chonnam National University)

Enumeration of Weighted Graphs

Abstract

03/03

Qualifying Exam Discussion

03/10

Qualifying Exam Discussion

03/17

SPRING BREAK, NO MEETING

03/28, 3:00 pm, 368 Little

Ali Dashti (UF, Math)

A characterization of Weakly Church-Rosser Abstract Reduction systems that are not Church-Rosser  

03/31, 1:55 pm - 2:45pm, E404

Holger Gohlke, Department of Biological Sciences J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Modeling macromolecular flexibility and plasticity. Abstract
04/07 

To be arranged

04/14

To be arranged

04/21 

To be arranged

04/28

To be arranged

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