Dates: January 19-22, 2009.
Location: The workshop took place in the University
Inn, a conveniently located conference center at Rutgers University.
Workshop: This was a sequel to the highly successful
meeting held at the Caesarea Rothschild Computer
Science Institute (Haifa, January 27 - February 1, 2008) with a
slightly expanded scope. Boolean and pseudo-Boolean functions are pervasive
today in all areas of mathematics, computer science, operations research,
various sciences and engineering. An ever increasing number and areas
of applications demand new results from both structural and algorithmic
points of views. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from all
walks of science to discuss the latest results and the most important open
problems.
Peter L. Hammer Memorial Colloquium: The
workshop concluded with a Colloquium honoring the memory of Peter L.
Hammer (1936-2006). The colloquium was held at RUTCOR on Thursday, January 22, 2009, from 14:00-17:00PM,
followed by a reception. Dr. Hammer initiated many of the research areas covered
by this workshop. He published over 200 research papers, books and edited
volumes in this area. His seminal works inspired hundreds of young researchers,
and initiated entirely new research directions. In this afternoon Memorial
Colloquium invited speakers will recall Dr.
Hammer's contributions and report on the latest developments
in his research areas.
Sponsors: The workshop was made possible by the generous
support from DIMACS, RUTCOR and an anonymous supporter.
Talks of the program are available
here.
Colloquium for
Peter L. Hammer & 25th Anniversary of RUTCOR, click here.
Participants: