Supported by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential Programme, High-Level Scientific Conferences - HPCF-2001-00105
As the analysis of algorithms has matured as a discipline, it has drawn from (and inspired) increasingly sophisticated mathematics. This is particularly true of the analysis of randomised algorithms. The conference aims to stimulate progress in this interdisciplinary area, by bringing together computer scientists with probability theorists and others working in relevant areas of mathematics, such as the theory of stochastic processes.
The programme is in two parts. The first part will be concerned with mathematical foundations, for example, random walks on graphs, concentration of measure, etc. The second part is concerned with design and analysis of algorithms which make random choices - including Monte Carlo and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms and deterministic algorithms when run on random instances. The main criterion for inclusion of an application is that the analysis should make significant and preferably novel use of tools from probability theory. The first Monday and Tuesday of the conference may be used for introductory and survey talks, designed to orient newcomers to the topics.
Monday 5th August 2002 | |||
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08:30 to 10:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:00 to 11:15 | Room 1 | ||
11:15 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Svante Janson |
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12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Clifford Smyth Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
Mixing time and its relation to other Markov chain parameters |
Room 1 | |
17:15 to 18:15 | Room 1 | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 6th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Alexander Barvinok University of Michigan |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
The cover time of sparse random graphs $G_{n,p}$, $p=c \log n$, $c>1$, and related problems |
Room 1 | |
18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 7th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Thursday 8th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Presad Tetali Georgia Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Mixing in time and space for lattice spin system: a combinatorial view |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Alan Sokal New York University |
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15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Friday 9th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Dana Randall Georgia Institute of Technology |
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11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Michael Mahoney Stanford University |
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12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 | Room 1 | ||
15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
Peter Winkler |
Room 1 | |
18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Monday 12th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Alistair Sinclair |
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12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Leslie Goldberg University of Warwick |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 13th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Jeong Han Kim Microsoft (UK) |
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11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Michele Zito University of Liverpool |
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12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Andrzej Rucinski IFT-UAM/CSIC |
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15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 | Room 1 | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 14th August 2002 | |||
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11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
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20:00 to 00:00 | Room 1 |
Thursday 15th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Michal Karonski Adam Mickiewicz University |
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11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Alan Frieze Carnegie Mellon University |
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12:30 to 13:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Thomasz Luczak Adam Mickiewicz University |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
Gregory Sorkin IBM Research |
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18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
Friday 16th August 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Jim Fill Johns Hopkins University |
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11:00 to 11:30 | Room 1 | ||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Vijay Vazirani |
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15:00 to 15:30 | Room 1 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
Marek Karpinski University of Bonn |
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18:45 to 19:30 | Room 1 |
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