[DMANET] Summer school Randomized Algorithms in Vancouver

Summer School on Randomized Techniques for Combinatorial Algorithms

Organized by

Petra Berenbrink (SFU), Funda Ergun (SFU), and Valerie King (U. of Victoria)

as part of

PIMS CRG: Algorithmic Theory of Networks

Simon Fraser University, 08/18/2014 to 08/22/2014



Program:

Monday, Aug 18: Nick Harvey, UBC. Concentration bounds for sums of random variables and matrices

Tuesday, Aug 19: Seffi Naor, Technion: Randomized Algorithms: Recent Results and Techniques

Wednesday, Aug 20: Eli Upfal, Brown University: The Monte Carlo Method

Thursday, Aug 21: Artur Czumaj, University of Warwick: Sublinear Algorithms

Friday, Aug 22: Robert Elsaesser, University of Salzburg: Random Walks and Their Applications in Algorithms


Teaching is from 9:30-12:00 and from 13:30 to 16:00 every day.

Registration fee is $50 (for coffee breaks), registration is open: You can
find more information and sign up using the Summer School webpage at:

http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/140818-ssrtca

There is some funding available; to apply please e-mail Petra Berenbrink at petra@cs.sfu.ca
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