Winter 2007 Operations Research Colloquia

Wednesday
January 31, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 PM
A Message-Passing Paradigm for Resource Allocation

Benjamin Van Roy
Department of Management Science and Engineering and
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

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Wednesday
February 7, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Cuts and Flows in Directed Graphs

Sanjeev Khanna
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

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Thursday
February 15, 2007
Packard 101
4:15 - 5:15 PM
Joint Colloquium with Stanford Algorithms Seminar

Reconstruction of and Optimization on Networks


Elchanan Mossel
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

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Wednesday
February 21, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Joint Colloquium with Stanford Algorithms Seminar

Degree Constrained Network Flows


Adrian Vetta
Department of Mathematics and Statistics and
School of Computer Science
McGill University

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Friday
February 23, 2007
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Thornton 110
Counting, Rare-events and Efficient Importance Sampling

Jose Blanchet
Department of Statistics
Harvard University

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Wednesday
February 28, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Finding Equitable Convex Partitions of Points and Its Applications

Yinyu Ye
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University

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Tuesday
March 6, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Terman 217
Coherent Risk Measures

Alexander Cherny
Department of Probability Theory
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Moscow State University

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Wednesday
March 7, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Joint Colloquium with Stanford Algorithms Seminar

Reconstruction Problems on Trees: A Simple Criterion for Impossibility


Alistair Sinclair
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

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Wednesday
March 14, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 PM
On the Bias of Traceroute Sampling
(or: Power-Law Degree Distributions in Regular Graphs)


David Kempe
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California

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