William Tutte's 100th Distinguished Lecture Series
Due to popular demand with the series, we are continuing to offer one lecture each term. The next lecture happens November 2 with Sergey Norin.
During the Summer months (May - August) C&O is proudly organizing a distinguished lecture series in honour of William Tutte's 100th birthday.
The series will present weekly talks by esteemed experts in one of C&O's core research areas. Talks take place every Friday, starting at 3:30pm in room 5501 of the Math & Computer (MC) Building.
Please find a list of the speakers below; information on their talks will be added as it becomes available. All talks are free and open to the public and no reservations are necessary.
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May 5, 2017Speaker: Gerard Cornuejols Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University Area of Expertise: Operations Research
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May 12, 2017Speaker: Michel Goemans Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Area of Expertise: Discrete Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization
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May 19, 2017Speaker: James Oxley Affiliation: Louisiana State University Area of Expertise: Matroid Theory and Graph Theory
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May 26, 2017Speaker: Julia Chuzhoy Affiliation: Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Area of Expertise: Theoretical Computer Science, with a main focus on the Area of Approximation
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June 2, 2017Speaker: Richard Stanley Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Area of Expertise: Combinatorics
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June 9, 2017Speaker: Fan Chung Graham Affiliation: UC San Diego Area of Expertise: Graph Theory in the Information Age; Spectral Graph Theory; Quasi-random graphs; Unavoidable graphs and universal graphs; and Ramsey Theory
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June 16, 2017Speaker: Gilles Brassard Affiliation: Université de Montréal Area of Expertise: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation; Quantum Entanglement Distillation; Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy & Classical Simulation of Quantum Entanglement
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June 23, 2017Speaker: Friedrich Eisenbrand Affiliation: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Area of Expertise: Discrete Optimization, in particular in Algorithms and Complexity, Integer Programming, Geometry of Numbers, and Applied Optimization
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June 30, 2017Speaker: Satoru Iwata Affiliation: University of Tokyo Area of Expertise: Combinatorial Optimization and Chemoinformatics
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July 7, 2017Speaker: Carsten Thomassen Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark Area of Expertise: Graph Theory and Discrete Mathematics
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July 14, 2017Speaker: Mike Molloy Affiliation: University of Toronto Area of Expertise: Graph Theory and Probabilistic Computer Science
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July 21, 2017Speaker: Maria Chudnovsky Affiliation: Princeton University Area of Expertise: Graph theory and Combinatorics, with a main interest in Structural Graph Theory
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July 28, 2017Speaker: Noga Alon Affiliation: Tel Aviv University (TAU) Area of Expertise: Combinatorics, Graph Theory and their applications to Theoretical Computer Science. Combinatorial Algorithms and Circuit Complexity. Combinatorial Geometry and Combinatorial Number Theory. Algebraic and Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics.
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August 4, 2017Speaker: Adrian S. Lewis Affiliation: Cornell University Area of Expertise: Variational analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization, with a particular interest in Semi-Algebraic Optimization and Variational Properties of Eigenvalues  |
August 11, 2017Speaker: Arkadi Nemirovski Affiliation: Georgia Tech Area of Expertise: Optimization Theory and Algorithms, with emphasis on investigating Complexity and Developing Efficient Algorithms for Nonlinear Convex Programs, Optimization Under Uncertainty, Applications of Convex Optimization in Engineering, and Nonparametric Statistics.
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August 18, 2017Speaker: George E. Andrews Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University Area of Expertise: Analysis and Combinatorics
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