[comp.theory] IBM-Cornell Workshop on Theory of Computing -- 11/30/89

ptiwari@IBM.COM (Prasoon Tiwari) (11/30/89)

IBM-Cornell Workshop on Theory of Computing
November 29 to December 1, 1989
Location:  Cornell University

Organizers:

Gianfranco Bilardi and Vijay Vazirani
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

Prasoon Tiwari
Computer Science Principles, IBM Research

PROGRAM:

November 29, 1989

Reception at the Johnson Museum
Hosted by IBM

November 30, 1989

9:20  -  Dexter Kozen:  Welcome

9:25  -  Ashok Chandra:  Opening Remarks

9:30  -  Gianfranco Bilardi:  On area universal networks for VLSI

10:00 -  Prabhakar Raghavan:  Random walks, electric networks and
         algorithmic applications

10:45 -  Vijay V. Vazirani:  A theory of alternating paths
         and blossoms for proving correctness of the O(sqrt{V} E)
         general graph matching algorithm

11:45 -  LUNCH BREAK

13:45 -  Ken Birman:  Demonstration of ISIS

14:15 -  Robert Constable and Chet Murthy:  Demonstration of Nuprl

14:45 -  LUNCH BREAK

15:00 -  Richard Chang:  On bounded queries to arbitrary NP sets.

15:30 -  Prasoon Tiwari:  On the decidability of sparse
         univariate polynomial interpolation

16:30 -  Ashok Chandra:  Towards more realistic models of
         parallel machines

         (Departmental Colloquium in B17 Upson Hall)

Dinner:  Thai Restaurant

December 1, 1989

9:00  -  Stavros Cosmadakis:  Expressiveness of recursive queries

9:45  -  Samir Khuller:  Efficient parallel algorithms for
         disjoint paths in graphs

10:15 -  Gabriel M. Kuper:  Constraint query languages

11:00 -  Dexter Kozen:  Demonstration of ALEX -- An Alexical
         Programming Language for Parallel Programming

11:30 -  LUNCH BREAK

13:30 -  Kieran Herley:  Deterministic simulations of PRAMs
         on bounded degree networks

14:15 -  Desh Ranjan: Space bounded computations - new separation results

14:45 -  Juris Hartmanis:  Closing Remarks

All Talks in Room 5130 Upson Hall