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Upcoming Events


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday March 6th, 2013, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Grammar-Compressed Indexes and its Applications to Document Listing [Abstract]
Speaker: Francisco Claude, University of Waterloo

Past Events


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday February 27th, 2013, 1:30pm, DC1316

 

Title: I/O-Efficient Shared-Constrained Range Reporting [Abstract]
Speaker: Sharma Thankachan, Louisiana State University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday February 20th, 2013, 2:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Space Efficient Construction of Wavelet Trees and Matrices [Abstract]
Speaker: Francisco Claude, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday January 23rd, 2013, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Shortest path problem in CAT(0) rectangular complexes [Abstract]
Speaker: Daniela Maftuleac, Université d'Aix-Marseille

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday December 14th, 1:30pm, DC2310 (NOTE UNUSUAL ROOM)

 

Title: A Space Efficient Framework for Dynamic Point Location [Abstract]
Speaker: Patrick Nicholson, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday December 13th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: A Framework for Succinct Labeled Ordinal Trees over Large Alphabets [Abstract]
Speaker: Gelin Zhou, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday December 12th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Fast, precise and dynamic distance queries [Abstract]
Speaker: Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday November 28th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Bend-Bounded Path Intersection Graphs: Sausages, Noodles, and Waffles on a Grill [Abstract]
Speaker: Steven Chaplick, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday November 23rd, 2012, 2:00pm, DC 2585

 

Title: Computing with Uncertainty [Abstract]
Speaker: Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday November 21st, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Efficient Fetch-and-Increment [Abstract]
Speaker: Faith Ellen, University of Toronto

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday November 14th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Reconfiguration of List L(2,1)-Labelings in a Graph [Abstract]
Speaker: Kazuto Kawamura, Tohoku University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday November 7th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Online Unit Clustering [Abstract]
Speaker: Kim S. Larsen, University of Southern Denmark

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday October 24th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Succinct Data Structures for Path Queries [Abstract]
Speaker: Gelin Zhou, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday October 10th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Odd Cycle Transversal and Vertex Cover above matching [Abstract]
Speaker: Venkatesh Raman, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday October 3rd, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: A Small Depth-16 Circuit for the AES S-Box [Abstract]
Speaker: Joan Boyer, University of Southern Denmark

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday September 26th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: On the complexity of reconfiguration problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Takehiro Ito, Tohoku University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday September 5th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Succinct Posets [Abstract]
Speaker: Patrick Nicholson, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday August 29th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Minimizing Cache Usage in Paging [Abstract]
Speaker: Alejandro Salinger, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday August 27th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Streaming Cryptography [Abstract]
Speaker: Periklis Papakonstantinou, Tsinghua University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday August 22nd, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Dual Sorted Inverted Lists in Practice [Abstract]
Speaker: Roberto Konow, Universidad de Chile

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday August 15th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Path Queries in Weighted Trees [Abstract]
Speaker: Gelin Zhou, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday August 15th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Prefix Free Codes in Linear Time [Abstract]
Speaker: Jeremy Barbay, Universidad de Chile

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday July 18th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: The k-Server Problem with Advice [Abstract]
Speaker: Marc Renault, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday June 6th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Robust Non-Parametric Data Approximation of Pointsets via Data Reduction [Abstract]
Speaker: Jason Morrison, University of Manitoba

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday April 25th, 2012, 1:30pm, MC5158 (note unusual room)

 

Title: Satisfiability Allows No Nontrivial Sparsification Unless The Polynomial-Time Hierarchy Collapses [Abstract]
Speaker: Dieter van Melkebeek, University of Wisconsin

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday April 11th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: The Incremental Constraint of k-Server [Abstract]
Speaker: Caelyn McAulay, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday April 4th, 2012, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Incorporating all inputs in the search for closest strings [Abstract]
Speaker: Narges Simjour, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday October 26th, 2011, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Variations on the Erdos Discrepancy Problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Alex Leong, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday Aug 31st, 2011, 1:30pm, DC1302

 

Title: Planar Open Rectangle-of-Influence Drawings with Non-Aligned Frames [Abstract]
Speaker: Soroush Alamdari, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday Aug 3rd, 2011, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Orthogonal cartograms / The segment minimization problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday July 13th, 2011, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Two talks on the Syntatic Complexity of Regular Languages [Abstract]
Speaker: Janusz Brzozowski and Baiyu Li, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday July 6th, 2011, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: How to find all centre strings? [Abstract]
Speaker: Narges Simjour, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday May 18th, 2011, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Finite Orbits of Language Operations [Abstract]
Speaker: Emilie Charlier, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday April 13th, 2011, 1:30pm, DC1304

 

Title: Boolean-width of Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Martin Vatshelle, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday March 18th, 2011, 1:30 PM, DC 2305 (Algorithms Lab)

 

Title: Ordered and Unordered Top-K Range Reporting in Large Data Sets [Abstract]
Speaker: Peyman Afshani, Dalhousie University

Talk of Possible Interest

Monday March 14th, 2011, 11:00 AM, DC 2314

 

Title: An Adaptive Approach to Set Expressions Evaluation [Abstract]
Speaker: Mehdi Mirzazadeh, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday March 9th, 2011, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Alphabet Partitioning for Compressed Rank/Select and Applications [Abstract]
Speaker: Travis Gagie, Aalto University, Finland

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday March 2nd, 2011, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Streaming Complexity of Validating XML Documents [Abstract]
Speaker: Christian Konrad, LRI, Orsay, France

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday February 9th, 2011, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Decomposing the Competitive Ratio [Abstract]
Speaker: Alexa Sharp, Oberlin College, USA

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday February 8th, 2011, 10:30 AM, DC 1304

 

Title: Edge Intersection Graphs of Single Bend Paths in a Grid [Abstract]
Speaker: Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday February 2nd, 2011, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Testing Simultaneous Planarity when the Common Graph is 2-connected. [Abstract]
Speaker: Krishnam Raju Jampani, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday January 12th, 2011, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: A Wavelet tree based representation of minimum bounding rectangles [Abstract]
Speaker: Diego Seco, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 2305

 

Title: Simultaneous Interval Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Krishnam Raju Jampani, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Efficient scheduling of equal size tasks in multiple machines [Abstract]
Speaker: Alex López-Ortiz, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Expressing a Polynomial as a Determinant [Abstract]
Speaker: Natacha Portier, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme, ENS Lyon, France; DCS, UofT

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, November 12, 2010, 11:00 AM, DC 2305

 

Title: Linear-Space Data Structures for Range Mode Query in Arrays [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephane Durocher, University of Manitoba

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Minimum Enclosing Area Triangle with a Fixed Angle [Abstract]
Speaker: Jean-Lou De Carufel, Carleton University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 8, 2010, 2:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Range Queries Over Untangled Chains [Abstract]
Speaker: Patrick Nicholson, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 8, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Succinct Representations of Dynamic Strings [Abstract]
Speaker: Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 11:00 AM, DC 2314

 

Title: Geometric On-line Ray Searching Under Probability of Placement Scenarios [Abstract]
Speaker: Ying (Catherine) Liu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: A Grouped Hamming Network [Abstract]
Speaker: Bryan Logan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Neighborship Voronoi Games [Abstract]
Speaker: Masud Hasan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Algorithms for computing NE/SNE repeats in a string and NE multirepeats in multiple sequences [Abstract]
Speaker: Munina Yusufu, Algorithms Research Group, Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Recognizing well-parenthesized expressions in the streaming model [Abstract]
Speaker: Frédéric Magniez, LRI, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Dynamic Planar Orthogonal 3-sided Range Reporting in Expected Doubly Logarithmic Time [Abstract]
Speaker: Konstantinos Tsakalidis, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 2314

 

Title: Simultaneously Embedding Planar Graphs at Fixed Vertex Locations [Abstract]
Speaker: Taylor Gordon, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 2:30 PM, DC 2314

 

Title: Problems Related to Shortest Strings in Formal Languages [Abstract]
Speaker: Thomas Ang, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: RootChord [Abstract]
Speaker: Lukasz Cwik, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: I/O and Space-Efficient Path Traversal in Planar Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: On a Problem Posed by Steve Smale [Abstract]
Speaker: Felipe Cucker, Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Practical Discrete Unit Disk Cover Using an Exact Line-Separable Algorithm [Abstract]
Speaker: Robert Fraser, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Vertex Intersection Graphs of Paths on a Grid [Abstract]
Speaker: Elad Cohen, University of Haifa, Israel

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, October 16, 2009, 2:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Left-leaning Red-Black Trees [Abstract]
Speaker: Robert Sedgewick, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 2314

 

Title: Finding Empty Cubes in Any Dimension [Abstract]
Speaker: Mark Keil, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Quasi-G-Packing Problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Jazmin Romero, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 3:30 PM, MC 5136

 

Title: Improved Parameterized Algorithms for the Kemeny Aggregation Problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Narges Simjour, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Algorithms for Sequence Finding and Selection Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: D. T. Lee, Institute of Information Science & Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 4:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Small drawings of series-parallel graphs and other planar graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Therese Biedl, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Drawing planar 3-trees with fixed face areas [Abstract]
Speaker: Elena Lesvia Velasquez Ruiz, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Five topics from CCCG 2009 [Abstract]
Speaker: Robert Fraser, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Simultaneous Representation Problem for Chordal, Compatability and Permutation Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Krishnam Raju Jampani, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Succinct Orthogonal Range Search Structures on a Grid with Applications to Text Indexing [Abstract]
Speaker: Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 2:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Self-Indexed Text Compression using Straight-Line Programs [Abstract]
Speaker: Francisco Claude, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Finding a Hausdorff Core of a Polygon: On Convex Polygon Containment with Bounded Hausdorff Distance [Abstract]
Speaker: Robert Fraser, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Master's Thesis Presentation

Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Distributed Policing with Full Utilization and Rate Guarantees [Abstract]
Speaker: Albert Choi, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Master's Thesis Presentation

Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 2:30 PM, DC 2314

 

Title: Reconstructing hv-convex polyominoes with multiple colours [Abstract]
Speaker: Adam Bains, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Three New Algorithms for Regular Language Enumeration [Abstract]
Speaker: Margareta Ackerman, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Optimal trees with clusters of stars constraints: characterizations and algorithms [Abstract]
Speaker: Michal Stern, Academic College of Tel-Aviv -- Yaffo & CRI University of Haifa, Israel

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, May 21, 2009, 2:30 PM, DC 1302

 

Title: Hyperbolic dovetailing [Abstract]
Speaker: David Kirkpatrick, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Random Hyperplane Search Trees [Abstract]
Speaker: James King, School of Computer Science, McGill University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The application of the in-tree knapsack problem to routing prefix caches [Abstract]
Speaker: Patrick Nicholson, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: A hierarchy between P and RP [Abstract]
Speaker: Periklis Papakonstantinou, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Optimal Scheduling of Contract Algorithms with Soft Deadlines [Abstract]
Speaker: Angele Hamel, Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Agnostic Online Learning [Abstract]
Speaker: David Pal, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1302

 

Title: Towards Universal Succinct Representations of Trees [Abstract]
Speaker: Arash Farzan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Decision Problems For Convex Languages [Abstract]
Speaker: Zhi Xu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Adaptive (Analysis of) Algorithms for Convex Hulls and Related Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Jeremy Barbay, Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Chile

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Market Equilibrium and Convex Programs (with two agents) [Abstract]
Speaker: Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, January 9, 2009, 11:00 AM, DC 1331

 

Title: Spanning trees with O(1) average stretch factor [Abstract]
Speaker: Michiel Smid, School of Computer Science, Carleton University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Showing Relevant Ads via Context Multi-Armed Bandits [Abstract]
Speaker: David Pal, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 10:30 AM, DC1302

 

Title: Shortest Paths Avoiding Forbidden Subpaths [Abstract]
Speaker: Mustaq Ahmed, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Bounding the Locality of Distributed Routing Algorithms [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephane Durocher, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, November 27, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1331

 

Title: Bit-Optimal Lempel-Ziv Compression [Abstract]
Speaker: Igor Nitto, University of Pisa

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Multi-pass geometric algorithms [Abstract]
Speaker: Eric Y. Chen, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Practical Approximation Improvements for Segment Minimization in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy [Abstract]
Speaker: Maxwell Young, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Coloring perfect graphs by contraction [Abstract]
Speaker: Benjamin Leveque, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Shortest Anisotropic Paths with Few Bends is NP-complete [Abstract]
Speaker: Mustaq Ahmed, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Average case to worst case reductions for polynomials [Abstract]
Speaker: Shachar Lovett, Weizmann Institute

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, October 17, 2008, 1:30 PM, MC5158

 

Title: How easily can we find our way without a map? [Abstract]
Speaker: Prosenjit Bose, School of Computer Science, Carleton University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Cliques in Edge Intersection Graphs of Subtrees of a Tree [Abstract]
Speaker: Elad Cohen, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Succinct Representations of Arbitrary Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Arash Farzan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Approximating Geometric Steiner Forest [Abstract]
Speaker: Glencora Borradaile, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, September 22, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1331

 

Title: Optimal Halfspace Range Reporting in Three Dimensions [Abstract]
Speaker: Peyman Afshani, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Bad Santa Problem and Energy-Efficient Reliable Broadcast for Radio Networks [Abstract]
Speaker: Maxwell Young, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: On Dominance Reporting in 3D [Abstract]
Speaker: Peyman Afshani, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: On set cover in geometric settings [Abstract]
Speaker: Sariel Har-Peled, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Master's Thesis Presentation

Thursday, August 21, 2008, 2:00 PM, DC 2314

 

Title: Algorithms for Optimizing Search Schedules in a Polygon [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephen Bahun, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Generating Variant Sudoku Puzzles [Abstract]
Speaker: Matthew Skala, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 2:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Adaptive Searching in One and Two Dimensions [Abstract]
Speaker: Reza Dorrigiv, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Maintaining Coresets in Data Streams [Abstract]
Speaker: Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Master's Thesis Presentation

Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 3:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Lower Bounds and Derandomization [Abstract]
Speaker: Jaffer Gardezi, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Pattern Matching with Springs: an Adaptive Analysis [Abstract]
Speaker: Jeremy Barbay, Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Chile

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Monoid Frobenius Problem and the De Bruijn Graph [Abstract]
Speaker: Zhi Xu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 2:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Coresets and Geometric Approximation [Abstract]
Speaker: Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Morphing Planar Graph Drawings with Bent Edges [Abstract]
Speaker: Mark Petrick, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 10:00 AM, DC 1304

 

Title: Error Detection in Number-Theoretic and Algebraic Algorithms [Abstract]
Speaker: Troy Vasiga, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Online Steiner Trees in Directed Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Spyros Angelopoulos, max planck institut informatik, Germany

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Multicore Architectures [Abstract]
Speaker: Alejandro Salinger, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1302

 

Title: Geometric k-Centres of Unit Disc Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephane Durocher, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: A Subproblem of the Monoid Frobenius Problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Zhi Xu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, May 29, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Repetitions in Strings [Abstract]
Speaker: Lucian Ilie, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 10:00 AM, DC 1304

 

Title: Locality and Location Awareness [Abstract]
Speaker: Evangelos Kranakis, School of Computer Science, Carleton University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Continuous Languages [Abstract]
Speaker: John Brzozowski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: General Auction Mechanism for Search Advertising (part II) [Abstract]
Speaker: David Pal, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: I/O-Efficient Algorithms for Computing Contour Lines on a Terrain [Abstract]
Speaker: Bardia Sadri, Department of Computer Science, Duke University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Noisy Sorting Without Resampling [Abstract]
Speaker: Mark Braverman, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: State-Complexity Hierarchies of Uniform Languages of Alphabet-Size Length [Abstract]
Speaker: John Brzozowski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Fast Distributed Computation of Cuts via Random Circulations [Abstract]
Speaker: David Pritchard, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: General Auction Mechanism for Search Advertising [Abstract]
Speaker: David Pal, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: A guide to polynomial-time approximation schemes for connectivity problems in planar graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Glencora Borradaile, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: On the Complexity of Reverse Similarity Search [Abstract]
Speaker: Matthew Skala, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Space-Efficient Dynamic Orthogonal Point Location, Segment Intersection, and Range Reporting [Abstract]
Speaker: Guy Blelloch, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: In-place 2-d nearest neighbor search [Abstract]
Speaker: Eric Y. Chen, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, January 10, 2008, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Meshing in Fixed Dimension in Near Optimal Work and Time [Abstract]
Speaker: Gary L Miller, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, January 4, 2008, 3:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: A model of imprecise points that allows linear time Delaunay triangulation [Abstract]
Speaker: Jack Snoeyink, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: On Routing with Guaranteed Delivery in Three-Dimensional Ad Hoc Wireless Networks [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephane Durocher, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Geometric Streaming Algorithms with a Sorting Primitive [Abstract]
Speaker: Eric Y. Chen, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, November 30, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Frobenius Problem in a Free Monoid [Abstract]
Speaker: Zhi Xu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Morphing Orthogonal Planar Graph Drawings [Abstract]
Speaker: Mark Petrick, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: On the relative dominance of paging algorithms [Abstract]
Speaker: Reza Dorrigiv, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Approximation Algorithms for Minimizing Segments in Radiation Therapy [Abstract]
Speaker: Maxwell Young, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Properties of Shortest Descending Paths [Abstract]
Speaker: Mustaq Ahmed, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 4:00 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Vertex pursuit games on models of complex networks [Abstract]
Speaker: Anthony Bonato, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 2305

 

Title: Succint data structures, Adaptive (analysis of) algorithms : overview, combination and perspective [Abstract]
Speaker: Jeremy Barbay, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, October 5, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Fast Skew Partition Recognition [Abstract]
Speaker: William Sean Kennedy, School of Computer Science, McGill University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Kinetic Maintenance of Mobile k-Centres on Trees [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephane Durocher, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: On stabilizers of infinite words [Abstract]
Speaker: Dalia Krieger, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 22, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Optimal Sparse Matrix Dense Vector Multiplication in the I/O-Model [Abstract]
Speaker: Riko Jacob, Computer Science Department, Technische Universitat Munchen

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Randomized Algorithms for Interval Scheduling [Abstract]
Speaker: C.K. Poon, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, August 13, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1331

 

Title: A Lower Bound on the Area of a 3-Coloured Disc Packing [Abstract]
Speaker: Benjamin Lafreniere, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, August 13, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1331

 

Title: Optimal schedules for 2-guard room search [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephen Bahun, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, August 9, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1331

 

Title: Data Structuring Problems in the Bit Probe Model [Abstract]
Speaker: Mohammad Ziaur Rahman, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 8, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Succinct Representation of Labeled Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, August 2, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Approximation Algorithms for Shortest Descending Paths [Abstract]
Speaker: Mustaq Ahmed, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Reconstructing Orthogonal Polyhedra from Putative Vertex Sets [Abstract]
Speaker: Burkay Genc, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Searching Lempel-Ziv Compressed Texts [Abstract]
Speaker: Diego Arroyuelo, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, July 13, 2007, 11:30 AM, DC 1304

 

Title: Compressing Web Graphs as Texts [Abstract]
Speaker: Gonzalo Navarro, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, July 12, 2007, 11:00 AM, DC 1304

 

Title: (Near) linear time algorithms for computing edit distances approximately [Abstract]
Speaker: Cenk Sahinalp, CRC Chair in Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, July 12, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The problem with promiscuous matching [Abstract]
Speaker: Raphael Clifford, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: A Randomized Algorithm for Online Unit Clustering [Abstract]
Speaker: Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Efficient Enumeration of Regular Languages [Abstract]
Speaker: Margareta Ackerman, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Edge Intersection Graphs of Paths in a Tree and Generalizations [Abstract]
Speaker: Michal Stern, Caesarea Rothschild Institute, University of Haifa

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 11:00 AM, MC5136

 

Title: Convergence and Approximation in Games [Abstract]
Speaker: Vahab S. Mirrokni, Theory Group, Microsoft Research

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Avoiding approximate squares [Abstract]
Speaker: Narad Rampersad, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, May 28, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Testing Graph and Hypergraph Properties Using Edge Queries [Abstract]
Speaker: Ehsan Chiniforooshan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Joint Bioinformatics/Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, May 25, 2007, 11:00 AM, DC1304

 

Title: New approaches to protein structure prediction [Abstract]
Speaker: Yang Zhang, Center for Bioinformatics and Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Adaptive Algorithms for Weighted Queries, on Weighted Binary Relations and Labeled Trees [Abstract]
Speaker: Aleh Veraskouski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Two applications of Benford Distribution - in Formal Languages and Combinatorial Game Theory [Abstract]
Speaker: Bala Ravikumar, Computer Science Department, Sonoma State University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: On the Complexity of Finding an Unknown Cut via Vertex Queries [Abstract]
Speaker: Ehsan Chiniforooshan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, May 7, 2007, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Geometric Facility Location under Continuous Motion [Abstract]
Speaker: Stephane Durocher, School of Computer Science, McGill University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Linear Lower Bounds on Real-World Implementations of Concurrent Objects [Abstract]
Speaker: Faith Ellen, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, April 26, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC3313

 

Title: Truthful Auctions for Arbitrary Sized Ads [Abstract]
Speaker: Tyler Lu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: How to Avoid Nondeterminism with a Little Foresight (Part II) [Abstract]
Speaker: John Brzozowski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 2:00 PM, DC3313

 

Title: Cache-Oblivious Undirected Shortest Paths [Abstract]
Speaker: Norbert Zeh, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: How to Avoid Nondeterminism with a Little Foresight (Part I) [Abstract]
Speaker: John Brzozowski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Succinct Ordinal Trees Based on Tree Covering [Abstract]
Speaker: Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Closing the gap between theory and practice: A refined framework for on-line algorithm analysis [Abstract]
Speaker: Alex Lopez-Ortiz, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Laurier Seminar Series in Computational Sciences and Applied & Statistical Modelling

Thursday, January 25, 2007, 4:00 PM, Room BA-308, WLU

 

Title: A Treecode Algorithm for Regularized Particle Simulations [Abstract]
Speaker: Robert Krasny, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Compact representations of Geometric Data Structures [Abstract]
Speaker: Luca Castelli, Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX), École Polytechnique

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 2:00 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Improved Algorithms for Path, Matching, and Packing Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Jianer Chen, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, December 15, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Fixed-Parameter Approximation: a New Tool to Deal with Hard Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Tarique Islam, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Succinct Indexes for Strings, Binary Relations and Multi-labeled Trees [Abstract]
Speaker: Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 22, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: The Effectiveness of Lloyd-type Methods for the k-Means Problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Chaitanya Swamy, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, November 17, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: The Fixed-Parameter Complexity of Longest Common Subsequence and PDA Intersection Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Tarique Islam, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Words avoiding repetitions in arithmetic progressions [Abstract]
Speaker: Narad Rampersad, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 4:00 PM, BA111, Bricker Academic, WLU

 

Title: Homomorphisms to the Clebsch graph [Abstract]
Speaker: Reza Naserasr, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 4:00 PM, BA111, Bricker Academic, WLU

 

Title: The cop number of random graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Changping Wang, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: On Deterministic NFA Simulation with k-Symbols Lookahead [Abstract]
Speaker: Nicolae Santean, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: On the Separation and Equivalence of Paging Strategies [Abstract]
Speaker: Reza Dorrigiv, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Towards Secure and Scalable Computing in Peer-to-Peer Networks [Abstract]
Speaker: Valerie King, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Modelling the infinite web [Abstract]
Speaker: Anthony Bonato, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 4:00 PM, N1056, Science Building, WLU

 

Title: Pseudo-random graphs from combinatorial designs [Abstract]
Speaker: Anthony Bonato, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Discussion Group Session

Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 3:00 PM, DC2305

 

Title: Link between search and compression
Moderator: Alejandro Salinger

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, September 7, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Dynamic Connectivity for Axis-Parelle Rectangles [Abstract]
Speaker: Peyman Afshani, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Computing distances and error detecting capabilities of regular languages [Abstract]
Speaker: Stavros Konstantinidis, Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary's University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Contract Algorithms and Optimal Processor Scheduling [Abstract]
Speaker: Angele Hamel, Department of Physics & Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: An O(n log n) algorithm for maximum st-flow in a directed planar
graph [Abstract]
Speaker: Glencora L. Borradaile, Department of Computer Science, Brown University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: A New View of the Hardness of Parameterized Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Tarique Islam, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 5, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Morphing Graphs with Fixed Angles [Abstract]
Speaker: Michael J. Spriggs, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: New Techniques for Zero Knowledge [Abstract]
Speaker: Amit Sahai, Computer Science Department, UCLA

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Colouring P5-free graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Chinh Hoang, Department of Physics & Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, June 19, 2006, 10:00 AM, DC1331

 

Title: On Critical Exponents in Fixed Points of Non-Erasing Morphisms [Abstract]
Speaker: Dalia Krieger, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 14, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Abelian Patterns and Powers in Words [Abstract]
Speaker: James Currie, Department of Mathematics, University of Winnipeg

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Optimal lower bounds for rank and select indexes [Abstract]
Speaker: Alexander Golynski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: The Node-Weighted Steiner Tree problem in Graphs of Restricted Node Weights [Abstract]
Speaker: Spyros Angelopoulos, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Optimal Sampling for Sorting and Selection [Abstract]
Speaker: Conrado Martinez, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform�ics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC3313

 

Title: Experimental Analysis of a Fast Intersection Algorithm for Sorted Sequences [Abstract]
Speaker: Alejandro Salinger, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 1:30 PM, DC2305

 

Title: Distance Permutations in Euclidean Spaces [Abstract]
Speaker: Matthew Skala, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Faster Adaptive Set Intersections for Text Searching [Abstract]
Speaker: Tyler Lu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: An Optimal Distributed Edge-Biconnectivity Algorithm [Abstract]
Speaker: David Pritchard, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC3323

 

Title: LOTs (Leaf Only Trees): Fast, Efficient and Robust In-Network Computation [Abstract]
Speaker: Andre Allavena, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Worst Case Optimal Union-Intersection Expression Evaluation [Abstract]
Speaker: Arash Farzan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithmic Problem Session

Monday, March 20, 2006, 2:30 PM, DC 2305


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Graph Partitioning using Single Commodity Flows [Abstract]
Speaker: Rohit Khandekar, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 4:00 PM, N1042, Science Building, WLU

 

Title: An edge ordering problem for regular hypergraphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Hongbin Fan, Department of Physics and Computing, Wilfrid Laurier University

Algorithmic Problem Session

Monday, March 6, 2006, 2:30 PM, DC 2305


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, March 3, 2006, 11:00 AM, DC1304

 

Title: On-line algorithms for graphs and posets [Abstract]
Speaker: Pawel Idziak, Computer Science Department, Jagiellonian University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Fast Algorithms For Hard Graph Problems: Bidimenationality, Minors, And (Local) Treewidth [Abstract]
Speaker: MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Growing Protean Graphs (new probabilistic model of the web network) [Abstract]
Speaker: Pawel Pralat, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Colored Predecessor and Related problems in the Bit Probe Model [Abstract]
Speaker: Ziaur Rahman, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Adaptive Searching in Succinctly Encoded Structures [Abstract]
Speaker: Jeremy Barbay, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 4:00 PM, WLU, Arts Building, 2C3

 

Title: Growing Protean Graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Pawel Pralat, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Rank/Select Operations on Large Alphabets: a Tool for Text Indexing [Abstract]
Speaker: Alexander Golynski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 4:00 PM, WLU, Arts Building, 2C3

 

Title: Stochastic models for the web graph [Abstract]
Speaker: Changping Wang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie
University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Variations on the Theme of Caching [Abstract]
Speaker: Cristian Gaspar, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Monday, November 21, 2005, 4:00 PM, WLU, Bricker Academic, BA210

 

Title: Subgraphs of colour-critical graphs [Abstract]
Speaker: Bing Zhou, Department of Mathematics, Trent University

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Can the P vs NP question be independent of the axioms of mathematical reasoning? [Abstract]
Speaker: Shai Ben-David, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Combinatorics of Go [Abstract]
Speaker: John Tromp, CWI

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Lossy compression: distortion rate theory for individual data [Abstract]
Speaker: Paul Vitanyi, CWI and University of Amsterdam and National ICT of Australia

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 2:30 PM, DC1304

 

Title: Complexity of Octagonal and Rectangular Cartograms [Abstract]
Speaker: Burkay Genc, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 4:00 PM, WLU, Bricker Academic, BA210

 

Title: Generating combinatorial objects focussing on signed binary representations [Abstract]
Speaker: Joe Sawada, Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 1:00 PM, DC2305

 

Title: Measuring the Difficulty of Distance-Based Indexing[Abstract]
Speaker: Matthew Skala, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 10:00 AM, DC1304

 

Title: Automatic meaning discovery using Google [Abstract]
Speaker: Paul Vitanyi, CWI and University of Amsterdam and National ICT of Australia

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 2:30 PM, MC5136

 

Title: An asymptotic approximation scheme for multigraph edge coloring [Abstract]
Speaker: Peter Sanders, Karlsruhe University

Laurier Discrete Math Seminar

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 4:00 PM, Bricker Academic 102

 

Title: Transversals in Graphs
Speaker: Penny Haxell, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, September 19, 2005, 11:30 AM, MC 5136

 

Title: Tight Regular Arrangements and Shortest Homotopic Paths [Abstract]
Speaker: Jeff Erickson, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Toward an understanding of haplotype inference by pure parsimony [Abstract]
Speaker: Ian Harrower, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Social Event [Details]

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 6 PM, DC 1301(a.k.a. fishbowl)

 


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC 1302

 

Title: Computational Aspects of Game Theory and Microeconomics [Abstract]
Speaker: Vangelis Markakis, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC 1302

 

Title: From Primal-Dual to Cost Shares and Back: A Stronger LP Relaxation for the Steiner Forest Problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Jochen Konemann, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Most Probable Annotation Problem in HMMs [Abstract]
Speaker: Tomas Vinar, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Connectivity, Expander Graphs, and Deterministic LOGSPACE [Abstract]
Speaker: Jonathan Buss, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithmic Problem Session

Monday, January 24, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC 2305


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, January 20, 2005, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: A Categorization Theorem on Suffix Arrays with Applications to Space Efficient Text Indexes [Abstract]
Speaker: Meng He, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Cost of Cache Oblivious Searching[Abstract]
Speaker: Alex Lopez-Ortiz, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Longest Increasing Subsequences in Sliding Windows[Abstract]
Speaker: Alexander Golynski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: An optimal Bloom filter replacement [Abstract]
Speaker: Srinivasa Satti Rao, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1302

 

Title: Bandwidth Reduction for Video-on-Demand Broadcasting Using
Secondary Content Insertion [Abstract]
Speaker: Claude-Guy Quimper, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Words avoiding 7/3-powers and the Thue-Morse morphism [Abstract]
Speaker: Narad Rampersad, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Some new developments in the theory of k-regular sequences [Abstract]
Speaker: Jason Bell, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Greedy-like Algorithms and Graph Optimization Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Spyros Angelopoulos, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithmic Problem Session

Monday, October 18, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 2305


Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, October 8, 2004, 10:30 AM, DC 1304

 

Title: Optimality HowTo: Computational Lower Bounds (and their application to Google-like Search Engines) [Abstract]
Speaker: Jeremy Barbay, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, September 29, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Efficient view point selection for silhouettes of convex polyhedra
 [Abstract]
Speaker: Masud Hasan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 10:00 AM, DC 1304

 

Title: A Parameterized Algorithm for Upward Planarity Testing [Abstract]
Speaker: Hubert Chan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, May 20, 2004, 12 Noon, DC 2305

 

Title: Survey propagation and low density parity check codes [Abstract]
Speaker: Ming-wei Wang, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, May 17, 2004, 11:30 AM, DC 1331

 

Title: Regular Expressions: New Results and Open Problems [Abstract]
Speaker: Ming-wei Wang, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Friday, May 14, 2004, 1:00 PM, DC 3313

 

Title: Pattern avoidance problems on graphs and numbers [Abstract]
Speaker: Ming-wei Wang, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Master's Thesis Presentation

Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 12:00 noon, DC 2305

 

Title: Hexagonal Grid Drawings: Algorithms and Lower Bounds [Abstract]
Speaker: Shabnam Aziza, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Monday, April 19, 2004, 11:00 AM, DC 2305

 

Title: Permutation Classes: An Overview [Abstract]
Speaker: Michael Albert, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, April 15, 2004, 11:00 AM, DC 1331

 

Title: Pattern Avoidance and Infinite Sequences [Abstract]
Speaker: Narad Rampersad, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: The Approximation Power of Priority Algorithms [Abstract]
Speaker: Spyros Angelopoulos, University of Toronto

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

Title: A linear lower bound for testing 3-cnf properties [Abstract]
Speaker: Sofya Raskhodnikova, Hebrew University http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~sofya/

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Thursday, January 15, 2004, 1:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Monoids and the State Complexity of the Operation root(L) [Abstract]
Speaker: Bryan Krawetz, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Design Optimal Multiple Seeds for Homology Search [Abstract]
Speaker: Jinbo Xu, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Equiprojective Polyhedra [Abstract]
Speaker: Masud Hasan, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 16, 2003, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Parallel Morphing of Trees and Cycles and Approximating the Geometric Minimum Diameter Spanning Tree [Abstract]
Speaker: Michael J. Spriggs, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 3:30 PM, DC 1302

 

Title: Combinatorial Analysis of Quantum Random Walks [Abstract]
Speaker: Eric Bach, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin

Joint Algorithms and Complexity and Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 3:30 PM, MC 6091A

 

Title: A fast and simple algorithm for bounds consistency of the alldifferent constraint [Abstract]
Speaker: Claude-Guy Quimper, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 3:30 PM, DC 1304

 

Title: Curves of Minimum Width and the River Shore Problem [Abstract]
Speaker: Alexander Golynski, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo