[Staff] [Colloquium] Reminder: talk by Peter Winkler on Monday, Nov. 13th

[Margery Ishmael]

Hi Donna,

Can you put this on the white board on Monday?

Thanks,
Marge

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Margery Ishmael wrote:

> DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - TALK
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> Date: Monday, November 13, 2006
> Time: 2:30 p.m.
> Place: Ryerson 251
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> Speaker:  PETER WINKLER
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> From:  Dartmouth
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> Url:  http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/
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> Title:  Scheduling, Percolation, and the Worm Order
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> Abstract:
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> Scheduling sequences of reals to minimize their maximum sum leads
> naturally to a partial order on real words which we call the "worm order".
> We show that in any submodular system there is a maximal chain which is
> minimum in the worm order among all paths from 0 to 1; this results in
> conditions under which a process can be scheduled without taking backward
> steps, and also enables us to analyze a form of coordinate percolation.
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> Joint work with Graham Brightwell (LSE) and in part with Lizz
> Moseman (Dartmouth).
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> ***The talk will be followed by refreshments in Ryerson 255***
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> Host:  Lance Fortnow
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