Spring 2011 Reading Seminar

This Spring we will meet on Wednesdays at 4:40pm in MSB 3106 and will be reading a variety of papers of interest,

most of which are recent exciting developments in the field of optimization. We will attempt to provide a list of

these papers below,and potentially a schedule of when these papers will be discussed.

April 6 : Jesus De Loera presenting: Lifting projections of convex polyhedra, and results from a newer paper

April 13: Mark Junod presenting: Hass, Largarias, Pippenger (1998) http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807016

April 20:

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Here are other papers that will potentially be presented this quarter:

-David W. Walkup and Roger J.-B. Wets(1969

Lifting projections of convex polyhedra

http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.pjm/1102983467

- Joel Hass, Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Nicholas Pippenger (1998):

The Computational Complexity of Knot and Link Problems

http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807016

-Sergei Chubanov (2011):

A strongly polynomial algorithm for linear systems having a binary solution

http://www.springerlink.com/content/j472ljkx00763563/

-Jozsef Solymosi, Terence Tao (2011):

An incidence theorem in higher dimensions

http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2926