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William Tutte'sÌý100th Distinguished Lecture Series

During the Summer months (May - August) C&O is proudly organizing a distinguished lecture series in honour ofÌý°Â¾±±ô±ô¾±²¹³¾ÌýTutte'²õÌý100³Ù³óÌý²ú¾±°ù³Ù³ó»å²¹²â.

The series will presentÌýweekly talksÌýby esteemed expertsÌýin one of C&O's core research areas.ÌýTalks take place every Friday, starting at 3:30pm in room 5501 of the Math & Computer (MC) Building.

Please find a list of the speakers below; information on their talks will be added as itÌýbecomes available.ÌýAll talks are free and open to the public and no reservations are necessary.

Recordings of occurred talks are all available on the Department's .Ìý

For more information about the Tutte's Distinguished Lecture Series, contact the Department at: combopt@uwaterloo.ca

Distinguished Lecture SeriesÌý
May 5, 2017 Speaker:Ìý Affiliation:ÌýCarnegie Mellon University Area of Expertise:ÌýOperations Research Ìý Ìý Ìý
May 12, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation:ÌýMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Area of Expertise:ÌýDiscrete Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization Ìý
May 19, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation:ÌýLouisiana State University Area of Expertise:ÌýMatroid Theory and Graph Theory Ìý
May 26, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation:ÌýToyota Technological Institute at Chicago Area of Expertise:ÌýTheoretical Computer Science, with a main focus on the Area of Approximation Ìý
June 2, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation:ÌýMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Area of Expertise: Combinatorics Ìý
June 9, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation: UC San Diego Area of Expertise:ÌýGraph Theory in the Information Age; Spectral Graph Theory; Quasi-random graphs; Unavoidable graphs and universal graphs; and Ramsey Theory Ìý
June 16, 2017 Speaker: Ìý Affiliation:ÌýUniversité de Montréal Area of Expertise:ÌýQuantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation; Quantum Entanglement Distillation; Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy & Classical Simulation of Quantum Entanglement Ìý
June 23, 2017 Speaker:Ìý Affiliation:ÌýÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Area of Expertise:ÌýDiscrete Optimization, in particular in Algorithms and Complexity, Integer Programming, Geometry of Numbers, and Applied Optimization Ìý
June 30, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation: University of TokyoÌý Area of Expertise:ÌýCombinatorial Optimization and Chemoinformatics Ìý
July 7, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark Area of Expertise: Graph Theory and Discrete Mathematics Ìý
July 14, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation: University of Toronto Area of Expertise:ÌýGraph Theory and Probabilistic Computer ScienceÌý Ìý
July 21, 2017 Speaker:Ìý Affiliation: Princeton University Area of Expertise:ÌýGraph theory and Combinatorics, with a main interest in Structural Graph Theory Ìý
July 28, 2017 Speaker: Ìý Affiliation:ÌýTel Aviv UniversityÌý(TAU) Area of Expertise:ÌýCombinatorics, Graph Theory and their applications to Theoretical Computer Science. Combinatorial Algorithms and Circuit Complexity. Combinatorial Geometry and Combinatorial Number Theory. Algebraic and Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics. Ìý
August 4, 2017 Speaker: Affiliation: Cornell UniversityÌý Area of Expertise:ÌýVariational analysis and Nonsmooth Optimization, with a particular interest in Semi-Algebraic Optimization and Variational Properties of Eigenvalues ​
August 11, 2017 Speaker:Ìý Affiliation: Georgia Tech Area of Expertise:ÌýOptimization Theory and Algorithms, with emphasis on investigating Complexity and Developing Efficient Algorithms for Nonlinear Convex Programs, Optimization Under Uncertainty, Applications of Convex Optimization in Engineering, and Nonparametric Statistics. Ìý
August 18, 2017 Speaker:Ìý Affiliation:ÌýPennsylvania State University Area of Expertise: Analysis and Combinatorics Ìý