Conference on Probabilistic

Techniques in Computer Science

An activity of an i-MATH Intensive Research Programme


Programme

Monday, September 14

8:45 - 9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00- 10:00 Nicholas Wormald, University of Waterloo

Load Balancing and Random Graphs

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Prasad Tetali

Probabilistic Techniques in Computational Number Theory

11:30 - 12:30 Contributed talks (Müller)
12:30 - 15:00 LUNCH
15:00 - 16:00 Osamu Watanabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Propagation Connectivity of Random Hyper Graphs

Tuesday, September 15

9:00- 10:00 Dimitris Achlioptas, UC Santa Cruz

Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Amin Coja-Oghlan, University of Edinburgh

A Better Algorithm for Random k-SAT

11:30 - 12:30 Contributed talks (Capobianco, Heidarvand)
12:30 - 15:00 LUNCH
15:00 - 16:00 Gábor Lugosi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Sharp Threshold for Percolation on Expanders

Wednesday, September 16

9:30- 10:30 Mordecai Golin, The Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology

Shannon Coding for the Discrete Noiseless Channel and Related Problems

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Hsien-Kuei Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Asymptotic Variance of Random Digital Trees

12:00 - 13:00 Contributed talks (Golebiewski, Rösler)
13:00 - 15:00 LUNCH
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Thursday, September 17

10:00- 11:00 Leslie Goldberg, University of Liverpool

Sampling Independent Sets in Bipartite Graphs, Boolean Constraint Satisfaction and Stable Matchings

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Elitza Maneva, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Bounding the Threshold of Reconstruction on Trees Using an Iterative Algorithm

12:30 - 13:30 Contributed talks (Rybarczyk, Mitsche)
13:30 - 15:00 LUNCH

Friday, September 18

9:30- 10:30 Mike Molloy, University of Toronto

The Scaling Window for a Random Graph with a Given Degree Sequence

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Benjamin Doerr, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik

Quasirandom Broadcasting

12:00 - 12:30 Closing Session
12:30 - 15:00 LUNCH

Last updated: 15/09/2009