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- Subject: Workshop on Approximation Algorithms (Dec 1992)
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- Date: 8 Sep 92 17:51:47 GMT
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- Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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- Program for Workshop on Approximation Algorithms
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- December 16 & 17, 1992
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- Indian Institute of Technology,
- New Delhi, INDIA
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- Wednesday, December 16, 1992
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- 9.30am to 10.30 am
- Proof verification and the hardness of approximations, I
- Madhu Sudan (U.C. Berkeley and IBM)
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- 11am to 12 noon
- Proof verification and the hardness of approximations, II
- Madhu Sudan (U.C. Berkeley and IBM)
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- 12 noon to 2pm
- Lunch
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- 2pm to 3pm
- On the approximation of graph coloring and set cover problems
- Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T Bell Labs)
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- 3.30pm to 4.30pm
- Good, better and best approximation algorithms.
- Dorit Hochbaum (U.C. Berkeley)
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- Thursday, December 17, 1992
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- 9am to 10am
- On the approximation of maximum satisfiability
- Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T Bell Labs)
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- 10.30am to 11.30am
- Adapting the classical primal-dual framework to
- approximation algorithms
- Vijay Vazirani (IIT Delhi)
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- 12 noon to 1pm
- Markov chains, random generaration, and approximate counting.
- Umesh Vazirani (U.C. Berkeley)
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- 1pm to 2.30pm
- Lunch
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- 2.30pm to 3.30pm
- Rapid mixing arguments for matroids.
- Milena Mihail (Bellcore)
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- 4pm to 5pm
- Random walks in convex sets
- Ravi Kannan (Bellcore and CMU)
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- Note: Registration information for the workshop will be sent along
- with that for the FSTTCS conference.
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- For more information contact Vijay Vazirani (vazirani@cse.iitd.ernet.in)
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