THURSDAY

  • 9:00 - 10:00 CHAIR: H. Mahmoud
    • D. Aldous
      "Zeta(2), the Random Assignment Problem, and Essential Uniqueness of Random Optimization Problems'
  • 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK

  • 10:30 - 12:00 CHAIR: H. Mahmoud
    • Y. Kontoyiannis
      "Probabilistic Phenomena in Data Compression"
    • P. Jacquet
      "Asymptotic Optimal Prediction Based on Pattern Matching"
    • A. Viola
      "Some open problems in the Combinatorial Structure of Linear Probing Hashing with Buckets"
  • 12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH

  • 2:00 - 3:30 CHAIR: B. Vallee
    • G. Louchard
      "Distinctness of compositions of an integer:Probabilistic Analysis"
    • P. Hitczenko
      "On the distribution of distinct part sizes in random composition of integer"
    • H. Shachnai
      "Finding Independent Sets of Guaranteed Size in Uniform Hypergraphs"
  • 3:30 - 4:00 BREAK

  • 4:00 - 6:00 CHAIR: H-K. Hwang
    • D. Gardy
      "Dynamical urn models revisited"
    • H. Mahmoud
      "Urn Models with Non-square Addition Matrix"
    • B. Vallee
      "Average bit-complexity of Euclidean Algorithms"
    • A. Akhavi
      "Threshold phenomena in an "easy" class of random lattices and efficient reduction algorithms."
  • 8:00 BANQUET