Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!IBM.COM!ptiwari From: ptiwari@IBM.COM (Prasoon Tiwari) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: IBM-Cornell Workshop on Theory of Computing -- 11/30/89 Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 08:12:54 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Theory-B - TheoryNet Ongoing Seminars and Lectures , Prasoon Tiwari Lines: 76 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 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com