Inaugural Distinguished Lectures

Klaus Building Auditorium
November 10, 2006

9:00 AM Breakfast
9:35 AM Opening remarks
9:45 AM - 10:25 AM Introductory Lecture:
Santosh Vempala
Algorithms and Randomness
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Distinguished Lecture I:
Richard Karp, UC Berkeley
Balanced Network Decompositions for Internet Routing
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Distinguished Lecture II:
Ravi Kannan, Yale University
Sampling for Massive Data Problems
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Distinguished Lecture III:
Richard Lipton, Georgia Tech
Algorithms that Go Bump in the Night