SEMINARS for Spring 2009

  Date

                                          Seminar

  4/23/09

 RUTCOR BrownBag Seminar:
    Speaker:     Georgios Saharidis
    Affiliation:    Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
    Title:           Speeding-up Benders decomposition method

  4/2/09

 RUTCOR BrownBag Seminar:
    Speaker:     Adi Ben-Israel
    Affiliation:    RUTCOR
    Title:           A generalized Weiszfeld algorithm for the multi-facility location
                      problem, with applications to data analysis.

  3/26/09

 RUTCOR BrownBag:
    Speaker:      Mario Szegedy
    Affiliation:     Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University
    Title:            Introduction to Quantum Computing

  3/19/09

RUTCOR Colloquium:
   Speaker:      Kaz Makino
   Affiliation:     University of Tokyo
   Title:            Deductive Inference for the Interiors and Exteriors of Horn Theories

  3/12/09

RUTCOR Colloquium:
   Speaker:     R. J. Stern
   Affiliation:    Concordia University, Montreal
   Title:           The union of uniform closed balls conjecture    

  3/05/09

RUTCOR Colloquium:
   Speaker:      Khaled Elbassioni
   Affiliation:     Max-Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany  
   Title:            Improved Approximations for Guarding 1.5-Dimensional Terrains

  2/19/09

RUTCOR Colloquium:
   Speaker:     Zilla Sinuany-Stern
   Affiliation:    Ben Gurion University of the Negev
                     Ariel University Center of Samaria
   Title:          Operations Research Models in Higher Education

  2/5/09

RUTCOR Colloquium:
   Speaker:     Tomas Terlaky
   Affiliation:    Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
                     Lehigh University 
   Title:          The Hirsch Conjecture and its Relatives: Diameter and Curvature