REU Summer 2003 Calendar

Monday, June 9 DIMACS/DIMATIA/MATH REU Program begins.
Tuesday, June 10 REU Seminar
Spearker: Minh-Tri Vo , Math Student, Rutgers University.
Title: The Irreducible Representations of SU(2)
Time and location: 4:00 pm -5:00 pm, DIMACS Seminar Room.

Orientation Dinner
Time and location: 5:30pm in the DIMACS Lounge, Room 401.
Wednesday, June 11 REU Seminar
Speaker:Dr. Charles Weibel, Professor of Mahtematics, Rutgers University.
Title: Applying to Graduate School
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Seminar Room, DIMACS.
Lunch will be served.
Thursday, June 12 REU Seminar
Speaker:Dr. Farid Alizadeh, Professor of Operations Research, Rutgers University.
Title: What do statistical regression, maximum cuts and maximum cliques in graphs and
pattern classification have in commom? Semidefinite Programming!

Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Seminar Room, DIMACS.
Lunch will be served.
Thursday, June 19 Project Presentations
Time and location 1:00 pm - 4 pm, Room 431, DIMACS.
Friday, June 20 Project Presentations
Time and location: 1:00 pm - 4 pm, Room 431, DIMACS.
Tuesday, June 24 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Eric Allender, Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
Title: Randomness and Complexity
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Wednesday, June 25 REU Seminar
Speaker:  Dr. Vadim Lozin, Professor of Operations Research, Rutgers University.
Title:Boundary Classes of Graphs for NP-hard Problems:
When a Difficult Problem Becomes Easy

Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Thursday, June 26 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Pavel Valtr, Professor of Mathematics, Charles University.
Title:The Erdos-Szekeres Theorem and some related results
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Friday, June 27 IBM Visit
Tuesday, July 1 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Martin Farach-Colton, Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
Title:Adventures at Google
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Wednesday, July 2 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jozsef Beck, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University.
Title:Tic-Tac-Toe Games in Higher Dimensions
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Friday, July 4 Picnic
Thursday, July 10 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Barg
Title:Coding Theory: At the crossroads of algebra, combinatorics, probability,
and analysis Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Friday, July 11 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Sahi, Professor Mathematics, Rutgers University.
Title:Selberg's integral and its ramifications
Time and location: 10:15 am - 11:15 am, Room 431, CoRE.

REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Michael Kiessling, Professor Mathematics, Rutgers University.
Title:Random matrix theory and mathematical physics
Time and location: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Room 431, CoRE.

REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Ales Pultr, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Charles University.
Title:Notes On Combinatorial Games
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Monday, July 14 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Kelmans, RUTCOR, Rutgers University.
Title:On Hamiltonian Cycles in Graphs
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 139, RUTCOR.
Lunch will be served.
Tuesday, July 15 AT&T Labs-Research Visit
Wednesday, July 16 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Robert E. Jamison, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University.
Title: Pattern Ramsey Numbers and Constrained Decomposition of Graphs
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Thursday, July 17 DCI Presentations
Time and location: 10 am, 1st Floor Auditorium, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University.
Lunch will be served after the presentations.
Friday, July 18 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. John Gimbel, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
Title: Group Labels on Hamiltonian Cycles
Time and location: 11 am - 11:30 pm, Room 433, CoRE.
Wednesday, July 23 Final Project Presentations
Time and location: 1 pm - 7pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Thursday, July 24 Final Project Presentation
Time and location: 1 pm - 7 pm, Room 301, CoRE.

Farewell Dinner
Time and location: 6:00 pm, DIMACS Lounge.
Friday, July 25 End of Math REU Program
Saturday, July 26 DIMACS/DIMATIA students depart for Prague.
Wednesday, July 30 REU Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Endre Boros, Professor of Operations Research, Rutgers University.
Title: How to generate many items?
Time and location: 12:30 pm - 2 pm, Room 301, CoRE.
Lunch will be served.
Friday, August 1 End of DIMACS REU Program
Wednesday, August 13 End of DIMATIA REU Program