DIMACS

RECONNECT CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Reconnecting Teaching Faculty to the Mathematical Sciences Enterprise
July 6 - July 17, 1998


Monday, July 6

Week 1

go to week2
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 9:30 Introduction - Fred S. Roberts & Rochelle Leibowitz
9:30 - 10:00 Nate Dean (Rice University), Topic I - Network Visualization, "Overview"
10:00 - 10:30 Martin Farach (Rutgers University), Topic II - Computational Molecular Biology, "Introduction"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:15 Jon Berry (Elon University), Topic I - LINK Introduction
11:15 - 12:00 Stephen Maurer (Swarthmore University) - Writing Modules
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch at DIMACS
1:30 - 2:45 Nate Dean, Topic I - "Planarity"
2:45 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 4:30 Martin Farach, Topic II - "Ultrametrics and Tree Metrics Part I"
4:30 - 5:00 Intro to PC Labs
5:00 - 6:00 Travel to hotel/free time
6:00 - Barbeque at RUTCOR(deck area,weather permitting or inside lounge)

Tuesday, July 7

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 11:00 Nate Dean, Topic I - Review of homework/exercises, "Crossing Number"
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Group 1: Jon Berry - LINK (Session 1)
Group 2: Library reading
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at DIMACS
2:00 - 4:00 Martin Farach, Topic II - Review of homework/exercises, "Ultrametrics and Tree Metrics Part II"
4:00 - 5:00 Group 2: Jon Berry - LINK (Session 1)
Group 1: Library Reading
5:00 - 6:00 Travel to hotel/free time
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner at Hotel
7:30 - 11:00 Hotel's Board room and Computer room (#103) available for writing

Wednesday, July 8

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 11:00 Nate Dean, Topic I - Review of homework/exercises, "Connectivity"
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Rochelle Leibowitz - Discussion of Writing Groups
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at DIMACS
2:00 - 4:00 Ramamoorthi Ravi, Topic II - Review of homework/exercises, "Sequence Analysis"
4:00 - 5:00 Open discussion with all lecturers
5:00 - 6:30 Travel to hotel/free time
6:30 - 7:30 Buffet Dinner at RUTCOR (deck area , weather permitting or inside lounge)
7:30 - 8:30 Jazz Group = Positive Rhythmic Force
8:30 - 11:00 Hotel's Board room, Library and Computer room (#103) available for writing

Thursday, July 9

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 11:00 Nate Dean, Topic I - Review of homework/exercises, "Classification and Clustering"
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Group 1: Jon Berry - LINK (Session 2)
Group 2: Library reading
12:15 - 1:00 Group 1: Library reading
Group 2: Jon Berry - LINK (Session 2)
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch at DIMACS
2:00 - 4:00 R. Ravi, Topic II - Review of homework/exercises, "Advanced Sequence Analysis".
4:00 - 5:00 Setting up writing groups
5:00 - 6:00 Travel to hotel/free time
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner at Hotel
7:30 - 11:00 Hotel's Board room, Library and Computer room (#103) available for Writing Groups

Friday, July 10

7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast at DIMACS
8:30 - 10:00 Nate Dean, Topic I - Review of homework/exercises, "Nonlinear Optimization"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 R.Ravi, Topic II - Review of homework/exercises, "Phylogeny"
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch at DIMACS
1:30 - 3:00 Writing groups - completion of outline
3:00 - 6:00 Travel to Hotel/ Free time
for those staying at hotel for weekend
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner at Hotel
WEEKEND TRIPS (to be arranged) E-MAIL/CONTACT (Elaine Foley) epfoley@dimacs.rutgers.edu


Monday, July 13

Week 2

go to week1
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 9:30 Shibu Yooseph, Topic II, Homework Review
9:30 - 10:30 Shibu Yooseph, (DIMACS), Topic II - "The Four Point Condition"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Jon Berry, Topic I, Homework Review
11:30 - 12:30 Joe Malkevitch, (York College - CUNY) - "Mathematical Matchmaking"
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at DIMACS
1:30 - 2:30 Roberto Tamassia, (Brown University), Topic I - "Graph Drawing I"
2:30 - 4:30 Writing Groups
4:30 - 6:00 Travel to hotel/free time
6:00 - 7:30 Barbeque at RUTCOR (deck area , weather permitting or inside lounge)
7:30 - 11:00 Hotel's Board room, Library and Computer room (#103) available for Writing Groups

Tuesday, July 14

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 10:00 Russell Schwartz, (MIT), Topic II - "Modeling and Simulation of Virus Shell Assembly"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Roberto Tamassia, Topic I - "Graph Drawing II"
11:30 - 12:30 Group 2: Library Reading & Writing
Group 1: Jon Berry - LINK (Session 3)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at DIMACS
1:30 - 2:30 Group 1: Library reading & writing
Group 2: John Berry - LINK (Session 3)
2:30 - 4:30 Writing Groups
4:30 - 6:00 Travel to hotel/free time
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner at Hotel
7:30 - 11:00 Hotel's Board room, Library and Computer room (#103) available for Writing Groups

Wednesday, July 15

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 10:00 Dannie Durand, (Princeton University), Topic II - " Markov Models of Population Dynamics"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Stephen North, (AT&T Labs- Research), Topic I - "Drawing Hierarchies"
11:30 - 12:30 Group 1: Jon Berry - LINK (Session 4)
Group 2: Library reading
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at DIMACS
1:30 - 2:30 Group 2: Jon Berry - LINK (Session 4)
Group 1: Reading and Writing
2:30 - 4:30 Writing Groups
4:30 - 6:00 Travel to hotel/free time
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner at Hotel
7:30 - 11:00 Hotel's Board room and, Library Computer room (#103) available for Writing Groups

Thursday, July 16

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 10:00 Mona Singh, (Whitehead Institute and MIT), Topic II - "RNA Structure Prediction"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Emden Gansner, (AT&T Labs - Research), Topic I - "Undirected Graphs, Path Planning and the Big View"
11:30 - 12:30 Writing Groups
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at DIMACS
2:00 - 4:30 Writing Groups
4:30 - 6:00 Travel to hotel/free time
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner at Hotel
7:30 - 11:00 Hotel's Board room, Library and Computer room (#103) available for Writing Groups

Friday, July 17

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast at DIMACS
9:00 - 10:00 Sridhar Hannanhalli, (SmithKline Beecham), Topic II - "Computational Theory of Genome Rearrangement"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Brenda Latka, (Lafayette College), Topic I - "A use of LINK:Antichains of Tournaments"
11:30 - 12:30 Writing Groups Presentations
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch at DIMACS
1:30 - 3:00 Writing Groups Presentations
3:00 - 4:00 Revision Time - Drafts Due
4:00 - 4:30 "Lunch at DIMACS" (Closing Discussion), Conference Room