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The Algorithms For Lunch Bunch

Thu @ 11am

Venue: the graphics annex

Contents 1 Spring 2011 1.1 Jan 6 1.2 Jan 13 1.3 Jan 20 1.4 Jan 27 1.5 Feb 3 1.6 Feb 10 1.7 Feb 17 1.8 Feb 24 1.9 Mar 3 1.10 Mar 10 1.11 Mar 17 1.12 Mar 31 1.13 Apr 7 1.14 Apr 14 1.15 Apr 21 1.16 Apr 28 2 Papers for discussion 3 Previous Semesters 4 Contact

Spring 2011

Jan 6

Amirali will talk about the new lower bound epsilon net results by Pach and Tardos.(Also, some previous work/background over here. Also on the agenda is the plan for the spring algorithms seminar.

Jan 13

Qiushi: ALENEX 11 practice talk.

Jan 20

Jeff will discuss a simplified proof of the epsilon-approximation theorem for range spaces of bounded VC-dimension.

Jan 27

Suresh will do a recap of SODA 11.

Feb 3

Jeff will talk about his recent work on merge-able summaries.

Feb 10

Discuss current research problems that people in the lab are working on.

Feb 17

John: "Geodesics in CAT(0) Cubical Complexes, Federico Ardila, Megan Owen, and Seth Sullivant"

Feb 24

Amirali Will talk about two interesting results, "Polychromatic coloring for Half-Planes"Polychromatic coloring. The fun observation here is the elegant link between hitting sets and coloring problems.

And the "Covering Cubes and the Closest Vector Problem" from SOCG 2011, and it's relation to Integer Programming.Closest Vector

Mar 3

Parasaran

Mar 10

Avishek:

Mar 17

Parasaran:

Mar 31

Amirali:

Apr 7

John:

Apr 14

Parasaran: SDM 11 practice talk.

Apr 21

Amirali:

Apr 28

Avishek:

Papers for discussion

• Papers

Previous Semesters

• Fall 2010
• Spring 2010
• Fall 2009

Contact

If you are interested in giving a talk at AFLB or have questions, please feel free to send a mail to moeller@cs.utah.edu, praman@cs.utah.edu or avishek@cs.utah.edu. If you are planning to give a talk, we would really appreciate if you have an abstract ready a week before the talk is scheduled.