"Curious Minds" Seminar Schedule

FALL 2003

The Curious Minds seminar meets in the Fall of 2003 on Mondays at 2pm in CS 111.

Date Material Comments and References
Sep. 1 Organization Meeting LABOR DAY
Sept. 8 Yiannis talk on LC-tries
Sept. 15 Yiannis continues on LC-tries
Sept. 22 Gopal leads the seminar
Sept. 29 Gopal's leads the seminar
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Oct. 6 Dr. Peter Erdos, Renyi's Institute, Hungary Host: Alberto Apostolico
Oct. 13 OCTOBER BREAK
Oct. 20 Solution to Knuth's problems Leader: Murat
Oct. 27 Solution to Knuth's problems Leader: Murat
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Nov. 3
Nov. 10 Sheetal Chainraj Bioinformatics
Nov. 17 Dr. William Levy, Virginia Medical School; ABSTRACT Host: Wojtek Szpankowski
Nov. 24 Dr. Eli Upfal, Brown University Host: Gopal Pandurangan
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Dec. 1 Daisuke Kihara Bioinformatics problems
Dec. 8 Dr. Andrea Califano, Columbia Medical School ABSTRACT Host: Alberto Apostolico

SPRING 2004

The Curious Minds seminar meets in the Spring of 2004 on Mondays at 1:30pm in CS 111.

Date Material Comments and References
Jan. 19 Profs. H. Prodinger (Wits) and J. Spalek (UJ) Entropy across sciences.
Jan. 26 Mehmet's talk Bioinformatics
Feb. 2 Mar's M.S. Thesis
Feb. 9 Murat on Knuth Problems
Feb. 16 Prof. M. Drmota (TU Vienna) Host. W. Szpankowski
Feb. 23; 1pm Prof. Igal Szleifer (Professor of Theoretical Physical Chemistry)
We meet at 1pm.
Host. A. Grama
March 1 Murat on Knuth Problems
March 8 Moderator: Dr. Gopal P.
March 15 SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK
March 22 Mehmet Moderator: Dr. Gopal P.
March 29 General Discussion on Probabilistic vs Deterministic Approaches.
April 5 G. Park
April 12 Mercan
April 19 Julien Fayolle (INRIA, France)
April 26 Gopal P.