Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
05
2007

Special Seminar

Baxter Operators and L-Functions
Sergei Oblezin
11:00am|S-101

The notion of Q-operator has been introduced by Baxter as a basic tool to solve quantum integrable systems. We develop Baxter Q-operator formalism for $\mathfrak{g}$-Toda chains for $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{gl}(N,\mathbb{R})$. The constructed Q...

Dec
04
2007

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Optimal Phylogenetic Reconstruction
Konstantinos Daskalakis
10:30am|S-101

An important task in systematic biology is the reconstruction of phylogenies: The evolutionary history of a family of organisms, represented by an evolutionary tree, needs to be reconstructed from the genetic data of the extant species, which...

Dec
03
2007

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Expander Flows, Graph Spectra and Graph Separators
Umesh Vazirani
11:15am|S-101

A graph separator is a set of edges whose deletion partitions the graph into two (or more) pieces. Finding small graph separators is a fundamental combinatorial problem with numerous applications. Interest in it also derives from its theoretical...