Spring 2002

Monday, 4:00 p.m., 5130 Upson Hall

 

1/21/02

Rusind Freivalds, Computer Science,  University of Latvia Quantum Finite Automata

2/4/02

Eric Friedman, Computer Science, Cornell University Selfishness, Learning, and Mechanism Design on the Internet

2/11/02

Eric Friedman, Computer Science, Cornell University Selfishness, Learning, and Mechanism Design on the Internet, Part 2: Technical Analysis

2/18/02

Alex Slivkins, Computer Science, Cornell University Network Congestion, Disjoint Paths and Parameterized Complexity

2/25/02

Ravi Kumar, Computer Science, IBM Almaden Research Center Approximating the number of inversions in a data stream

4/1/02

Eliott Anshelevich, Computer Science, Cornell University Stability of Load Balancing Algorithms in Dynamic Adversarial Systems

4/8/02

Chaitanya Swamy, Computer Science, Cornell University Fault Tolerant Facility Location

4/22/02

Mark Sandler, Computer Science, Cornell University Convergent algorithms for collaborative filtering

4/29/02

David Kempe, Computer Science, Cornell University An introduction to self-assembly

5/6/02

Tim Roughgarden, Computer Science, Cornell University The Price of Anarchy is Independent of the Network Topology