In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the department, and the 50th anniversary of the university, the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo hosted a six day conference June 18-23, 2007. The theme focussed on the six main research areas represented by the department: algebraic combinatorics; combinatorial optimization; continuous optimization; cryptography; graph theory; and quantum computing. The goal of the conference was to encourage and stimulate both further research within these areas, and cross-discipline interaction. We were greatly honoured by the 54 invited speakers whose participation ensured that this was an outstanding event for established research scientists and graduate students alike.
Organizing commitee:
- Andris Ambainis
- Bill Cunningham
- Ian Goulden
- Alfred Menezes
- Bruce Richter (Chair)
- Paul Schellenberg
- Levent Tuncel
Invited speakers:
- Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University
- Noga Alon, Tel Aviv /IAS
- George Andrews, Pennsylvania State
- Eric Bach, Wisconsin
- Michael Ben-Or, Hebrew University
- Charles Bennett, IBM T.J. Watson
- Nantel Bergeron, York University
- Philippe Biane, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- Gilles Brassard, Montréal
- Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton
- Andrew R.Conn, IBM
- Bill Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Gérard Cornuéjols, Carnegie Mellon/Marseille
- Claude Crépeau, McGill
- Ronald de Wolf, CWI, Amsterdam
- Bert Gerards, CWI & Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
- Ira Gessel, Brandeis University
- Michel Goemans, MIT
- Mark D. Haiman, UC, Berkeley
- Patrick Hayden, McGill
- Satoru Iwata, Kyoto University
- Julia Kempe, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud
- Neal Koblitz, Washington
- Adrian Lewis, Cornell
- Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser
- Jorge More, Argonne National Labs
- Mike Molloy, Toronto
- Assaf Naor, Microsoft, Seattle
- Yurii Nesterov, CORE - Université Catholique de Louvain
- Andrew Odlyzko, Minnesota
- Oded Regev, Tel Aviv University
- James Renegar, Cornell
- Alexander Schrijver, CWI, Amsterdam
- Andras Sebö, IMAG
- Paul Seymour, Princeton
- Leonard J. Schulman, California Institute of Technology
- Peter Shor, MIT
- Alice Silverberg, UC, Irvine
- Richard Stanley, MIT
- John Stembridge, University of Michigan
- Benny Sudakov, Princeton
- Eva Tardos, Cornell U
- Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
- Andrew Thomason, Cambridge
- Michael J. Todd, Cornell
- Umesh Vazirani, UC, Berkeley
- Hugh Williams, Calgary
- David Williamson, Cornell
- Richard Wilson, California Institute of Technology
- Margaret H. Wright, Courant Institute
- Steve Wright, Wisconsin
- Andrew Yao, Princeton
- Yinyu Ye, Stanford
Titles and abstracts of talks are available on the website.