ACiD seminars 2012/13

  2013/14  2012/13  2011/12  2010/11


Term 1

Week 1

Thu 11 Oct 2012  5:00pm in E245

Vojnovic Milan Vojnovic
Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Consensus

Week 2

Thu 18 Oct 2012  5:00pm in E245



Week 3

Thu 25 Oct 2012  5:00pm in E245
Gutin Gregory Gutin
Royal Holloway
Parameterized Complexity of Access Control Problems

Week 4

Thu 1 Nov 2012  5:00pm in E245
Georgiou Nic Georgiou
Durham
The simple harmonic urn
Week 5

Thu 8 Nov 2012  5:00pm in E245
Paterson Maura Paterson
Birkbeck
Secret Sharing and Ramps Schemes: Bounds and Constructions
Week 6

Thu 15 Nov 2012  5:00pm in E245
Deineko Vladimir Deineko
Warwick
Specially structured matrices in combinatorial optimisation

Week 7

Thu 22 Nov 2012  5:00pm in E245
van 't Hof Pim van 't Hof
Bergen
Ramsey numbers for line graphs and perfect graphs
Week 8

Thu 29 Nov 2012  5:00pm in E245
Beyersdorff
Olaf Beyersdorff
Leeds
How difficult is it to verify proofs?

Week 9

Thu 6 Dec 2012  5:00pm in E245
Radzik Tomasz Radzik
King's
New approximation bounds for some Maximum Network Lifetime problems in wireless ad-hoc networks
Week 10

Thu 13 Dec 2012  5:00pm in E245
Dabrowski Konrad Dabrowski
Durham
Partitioning Graphs Made Easy (or Not)
Term 2
Week 11

Thu 17 Jan 2013  5:00pm in E245
Erlebach Thomas Erlebach
Leicester
Computational Complexity of Traffic Hijacking under BGP and S-BGP
Week 12

Thu 24 Jan 2013  5:00pm in E245


Week 13

Thu 31 Jan 2013  5:00pm in E245
Huber Anna Huber
Durham
Skew Bisubmodularity and Valued CSPs
Week 14

Thu  7 Feb 2013  5:00pm in E245
Jackson Bill Jackson
Queen Mary
Chromatic polynomials
Week 15

Thu 14 Feb 2013  5:00pm in E245
Lozin Vadim Lozin
Warwick
Parameterized Complexity and Ramsey Theory
Week 16

Thu 21 Feb 2013  5:00pm in E245
Andrei Andrei Krokhin
Durham
Robust algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems
Week 17

Thu 28 Feb 2013  5:00pm in E245
Sviridenko Maxim Sviridenko
Warwick
New Approximation Algorithms for the Minimimum Set Cover and Other Covering Problems
Week 18

Thu  7 Mar 2013  5:00pm in E245


Week 19

Thu 14 Mar 2013  5:00pm in E245

Santhanam Rahul Santhanam
Edinburgh
Three Roads to Satisfiability
Term 3
Week 21

Thu 2 May 2013  2:00pm in E245
Mathilde NoualMathilde Noual
Nice, France
Updating Automata Networks
Week 22

Thu 9 May 2013  5:00pm in E245
Walshaw Chris Walshaw
Greenwich
Getting some perspective on hard problems: multilevel refinement for combinatorial optimisation