TOC COLLOQUIUM CALENDAR

Fall 2006 Schedule

 

All talks are on Tuesdays at 4:15pm, in 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva) on the 4th floor of Stata, unless otherwise stated.
Refreshments will be served before the lecture at 3:45pm in the RSA G5 Lounge .

Sep 19

David Parkes, Harvard University
Adaptive and Truthful Online Mechanisms in Single-Valued Preference Domains

Sep 26 &
Sep 28

Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Institute of Technology
New Market Models and Algorithms
This is a two-part series, joint with the ORC seminar.
Sep 26 TALK LOCATION: 32-G449 (usual location)
Sep 28 TALK LOCATION: E40-298

Oct 3

Michel Goemans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Minimum Bounded Degree Spanning Trees
NOTE UNUSUAL LOCATION: 32-144

Oct 10

(columbus day)

Oct 17

Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Queries on Encrypted Data

Thu Oct 26

Irit Dinur, Hebrew University
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs and Gap Amplification
NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND LOCATION: 56-114

Oct 31

Luca Trevisan, University of California at Berkeley
Gowers Uniformity, Influence of Variables and Probabilistically Checkable Proofs

Nov 7

Richard Karp, University of California at Berkeley
Balanced Network Decompositions for Internet Routing

Nov 14

Uriel Feige , Microsoft Research and Weizmann Institute
Algorithms for Deciding Satisfiability of Random Formulas

Nov 21

(thanksgiving week)

Nov 28

James Aspnes, Yale University
Population Protocols

Dec 5

David Shmoys, Cornell University
Approximation Algorithms for 2-Stage Stochastic Optimization Problems

Dec 12

TO BE RESCHEDULED

For previous colloquiums, see the archives.

Questions? Contact toc-seminar-planners@lists.csail.mit.edu