CS Colloquium, Spring 1999

The lectures will be held at Schreiber Building, Room 309, on Sundays 2:15-3:15.


11.4 Avishai Wool
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Topics in Restricted Multicast using Broadcast Encryption

18.4 Benny Sudakov
Tel Aviv University
On two segmentation problems

25.4 Janos Pach
Mathematical Inst. Hungarian Academy and Courant Institute, New York
Crossroads in Flatland, I: Crossing Numbers of Graphs

2.5 Sivan Toledo
Tel Aviv University
Locality of Reference in Sequential and Parallel Numerical Algorithms

9.5 Jacob Ziv
Electrical Engineering Department, The Technion
The Many Faces of Shannon Entropy - postponed

16.5 Rina Dechter
Information and Computer Science Dept., University of California, Irvine
A method of approximating variable-elimination algorithms

23.5 Omer Reingold
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Pseudo-Random Functions, Permutations and Synthesizers

30.5 Benjamin Melamed
Faculty of Management & Center for Operations Research, Rutgers University
The Empirical TES Modeling Methodology: Theory and Applications

6.6 Sariel Har-Peled
Tel Aviv University
Approximating Minimum-Width Annuli and Shells

13.6 Shimon Even
Computer Science Department, The Technion
Some Compact Layouts of the Butterfly

24.6 (Thursday) Alan Edelman
MIT and UC Berkeley
Next-Generation Eigensolvers

30.6 (Wedensday) Martin Rinard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pointer and Symbolic Analysis of Multithreaded Programs


Coordinated by Yossi Matias

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