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Friday, April 22, 2016 — 3:30 PM EDT
Title: The history of Tutte-Whitney polynomials
| Speaker: | Graham Farr |
| Affiliation: |
Monash University |
Thursday, April 14, 2016 — 4:00 PM EDT
Title: Excluding a uniform matroid
| Speaker: | Jim Geelen |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 5417 |
Abstract: I will discuss various conjectures concerning minor-closed classes of matroids that omit a uniform matroid.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 — 3:00 PM EDT
Title: The inertia bound for a graph is not always tight
Monday, April 11, 2016 — 3:30 PM EDT
Title: On the linear convergence of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm
| Speaker: | Javier Pena |
| Affiliation: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Room: | MC 6486 |
Abstract:
Friday, April 8, 2016 — 3:30 PM EDT
Title: Permutation factorization and methods from mathematical physics
| Speaker: | Sean Carrell |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 5501 |
Abstract:
Thursday, April 7, 2016 — 3:30 PM EDT
Title: Quantum walks on regular graphs
Monday, April 4, 2016 — 4:30 PM EDT
Title: Parallel algorithms for perfect matchings
| Speaker: | Nathan Lindzey |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 6486 |
Abstract:
Friday, April 1, 2016 — 3:30 PM EDT
Title: Traveling Salesman Problems
| Speaker: | Bill Cook |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 5501 |
Abstract: We discuss recent work and open research questions surrounding the traveling salesman problem. The focus will be on topics having potential impact on the computational solution of large-scale NP-hard problems.