DIMACS/IAS Workshop on Randomized and Derandomized Algorithms for Discrete Structures
November 2 - 4, 1998

Program:

All lectures will take place in the Mathematics building, Room M-101,
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Monday, November 2, 1998

9:15 - 10:00 Coffee/Tea/Muffins (Dining Room) 10:00 - 11:00 Miki Simonovits: The regularity lemma and its applications 11:15 - 11:45 Gabor Sarkozy: The Regularity Lemma and the Blow-up Lemma 12:00 - 12:30 Raphy Yuster: Decomposing Hypergraphs with Hypertrees 12:45 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 3:00 Andrzej Rucinski: How to avoid the regularity lemma 3:15 - 3:45 Yoshiharu Kohayakawa: Embeddings of small graphs in sparse regular graphs 3:45 - 4:30 Tea/Coffee (Fuld Hall) 4:30 - 5:00 Jeong Han Kim: Small Complete Arcs in Projective Planes 5:15 - 5:45 Vijay Vazirani: Majorizing estimators and the approximation of #P-complete problems

Tuesday, November 3, 1998

9:15 - 10:00 Coffee/Tea/Muffins (Dining Room) 10:00 - 10:45 Andrew Thomason: Colouring by hereditary properties 11:00 - 11:30 Penny Haxell: Integer and fractional packings in dense graphs 11:45 - 12:15 Lubos Thoma: On Dependent Arcs in Acyclic Orientations 12:45 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 3:00 Joel Spencer: Packing random rectangles 3:00 - 3:45 Sarmad Abbasi: Spanning Subgraphs of Dense Graphs 3:45 - 4:30 Tea/Coffee (Fuld Hall) 4:30 - 5:30 Open Problems 6:30 Buffet Dinner (Dining Room)

Wednesday, November 4, 1998

9:15 - 10:00 Coffee/Tea/Muffins (Dining Room) 10:00 - 10:45 Ravi Kannan: Low rank Approximations, Regularity and Clustering 11:00 - 11:30 Van Vu: On the list-chromatic number of locally sparse graphs 11:45 - 12:30 Michael Krivelevich: Testing Bipartiteness Efficiently 12:45 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 3:00 Janos Komlos: Tiling Turan Theorems 3:15 - 3:45 Hanno Lefmann: Independent Sets in Graphs and Hypergraphs and Applications 3:45 - 4:30 Tea/Coffee (Fuld Hall) 4:30 - 5:00 Andrzej Czygrinow: The algorithmic aspects of the hypergraph regularity lemma

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