SEMINARS for Fall 2007

   Date

                                       Seminar

09/20/07

RUTCOR Colloquium:
Speaker:      Kazuhisa Makino
Affiliation:    
Graduate School of Information Science and

                   Technology,  University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Title:            On the Fractional Chromatic Number of Monotone Self-Dual
                   Boolean Functions

09/27/07

RUTCOR Colloquium:
Speaker:      Christian Almeder
Affiliation:    
University of Vienna, Austria
Title:            Combining ant colony optimization and exact methods for
                   multi-level capacitated lot-sizing problems

 10/04/07

  RUTCOR Brown Bag:
  Speaker:       Andras Prekopa
  Affiliation:      RUTCOR faculty
  Title:             On the analytical-numerical valuation of the
 
                     Bermudan and American Options           

10/11/07

RUTCOR Colloquium:
Speaker:      Aviezri Fraenkel
Affiliation:     The Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Title:             Complexity of a Sequences Membership Question

10/18/07

RUTCOR Brown Bag:
Speaker:      Uri Rothblum
Affiliation:     The Technion,
Haifa, Israel
Title:            Accuracy certificates for computational problems   
                   with convex structures

11/01/07 

RUTCOR Colloquium:
Speaker:     Lisa Hellerstein
Affiliation:    Polytechnic University, Boooklyn, New York
Title:           Flow Algorithms for Two Pipelined Filtering Problems

 11/15/07

  RUTCOR Colloquium:
  Speaker:     Miguel Anjos
  Affiliation:   
University of Waterloo, Canada
  Title:           Solving Minimum k-Partition Problems using Semidefinite
                    Programming

 11/19/07

  RUTCOR Colloquium:   *** CANCELLED ***
  Date:          
Monday, November 19, 2007 (please note change of day)
  Place:         
RUTCOR Building, Room 139, 1:30 - 2:30
  Speaker:      Alan Hoffman
  Affiliation:    
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
  Title:            Gersgorin Variations

 12/06/07

 RUTCOR Brown Bag      **** CANCELLED ***
                                    will be held in the Spring
 Speaker:      Mario Szegedy
 Affiliation:     Rutgers University Computer Science Department
 Title:            Quantum Computing: What's It Good For?                      

 12/13/07

 RUTCOR Colloquium:
 Time:         
11:00 AM (please note change of time)
 Speaker:     Eugene Levner
 Affiliation:    Holon Institute of Technology
 Title:           Operations Research Tools for Solving Environmental
                   Security Problems

 12/20/07

 RUTCOR Brown Bag:
 Speaker:      Michael Rothkopf
 Affiliation:     RUTCOR
 Title:            How to think about auctions