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RECONNECT SATELLITE CONFERENCE 2004:

June 20 - June 26, 2004

Sunday, June 20, 2004

9:00 - 5:30 pm	Registration and check-in at the Ramer Hall front desk
6:00 - 7:00	Guided walk around campus and College Hill
7:00 - 8:00	Dinner in the Faculty Dining Room in Marquis Hall (Dean Gladstone Hutchinson and Jon Berry)
8:30 – 9:00	Overview of Topic: Experimental Algorithmics with a Focus on Branch and Bound (Cynthia Phillips)

Monday, June 21, 2004

7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
8:30 - 10:00	Session 1 in Acopian Building 500 IP and combinatorial optimization (Cynthia Phillips)
10:00 - 10:30	Break/Study Time (Suggested Problems to Do)
10:30 – 11:30	Part Ib: Pantographs and Pop-ups (J. O’Rourke)
11:30 - 12:00	Writing at Reconnect (Jon Berry)
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
1:00 – 2:00	Session 3 (Acopian 500) Polyhedral Theory (Cynthia Phillips)
2:00 – 3:00	Study Time/Break
3:00 – 4:00	Session 4 (Acopian 500) Lp-based approximation algorithms
2:40 – 3:30 pm	Part Ic: Locked Chains (J. O’Rourke)
4:45-6:30	Dinner in 2nd Floor Farinon

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
8:30 – 10:00	Session 5 in Acopian Building 500 Branch&Cut and MINTO introduction (Jeff Linderoth)
10:00 - 10:30	Break/Study Time
10:30 – 12:00	Session 6 (Acopian 500) Parallel Computing and PICO introduction (Cynthia Phillips)
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
1:00 – 2:15	Session 7 (Acopian 500) Using PICO (Cynthia Phillips)
2:15 – 3:00	Study Time/Break
3:00 – 4:15	Session 8 (Acopian 500) Using MINTO (Jeff Linderoth)
4:15-6:00	Lab Intro (Acopian 517)
6:30-8:30	Dinner in Downtown Easton

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
8:30 – 10:00	Session 9 in Acopian Building 500 Experimental Algorithmics intro (Jon Berry)
10:00 - 10:30	Break/Study Time
10:30 – 12:00	Session 10 (Acopian 500) Preprocessing (Jeff Linderoth)
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
1:00 – 2:15	Session 11 (Acopian 500) General Classes of Cutting Planes (Cynthia Phillips)
2:15 – 3:00	Study Time/Break
3:00 – 4:15	Session 12 (Acopian 500) TBA (Jeff Linderoth)
4:15-5:30	Writing Groups
5:30-6:30	Dinner in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall

Thursday, June 24, 2004

7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
8:30 – 10:00	Session 13 in Acopian Building 500 General Purpose Primal Heuristics (Cynthia Phillips)
10:00 - 10:30	Break/Study Time
10:30 – 12:00	Session 10 (Acopian 500) TBA (Jeff Linderoth)
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
1:00 – 2:30	Writing Groups
2:30 – 3:00	Study Time/Break
3:00 – 4:15	Lab Exercises (Acopian 517)
4:15-5:00	Writing Groups
5:00-6:30	Dinner in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall

Friday, June 25, 2004

7:30 - 8:30 am	Breakfast in Farinon 2nd Floor Dining Hall
8:30 – 10:00	Session 14 in Acopian Building 500 TBA (Cynthia Phillips/Jeff Linderoth)
10:00 – 3:30	Writing Groups/Lab
3:30-4:30	Writing Group Check in DRAFTS DUE
4:30-??	Talk preparation
12:00-1:00	Lunch
5:00-6:30	Dinner

Saturday, June 26, 2004

7:30 - 8:30 am

Breakfast in Farinon 2nd Floor

9:00 - 12:00

Group Presentations
Acopian 500

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch and Closing Discussion in Farinon