CSE 642-01 (#91436): Seminar in Algorithms, Fall 2019

Location and Hours. Wednesday 11:00 am - 12:15 pm, Room 120 of New CS Building

Course Description. This reading group provides a meeting place for Stony Brook faculty, postdocs, and students interested in the analysis of algorithms. We meet once a week, with one of three different missions:

Course Credit. You can get one credit for participating by simply registering for CSE 642, attending 80% of the meetings, and scribing one lecture. You are also welcome to come without registering.

Mailing List. We have a Google group. Future announcements will be distributed through the group forum and email. Please apply here to join the group.

Scribe Notes. Scribe notes will be available on Blackboard and can also be accessed through the Google drive link shared with our Google group members.

Instructors. Esther Arkin, Michael Bender, Rezaul Chowdhury, Jie Gao, Joe Mitchell, Steve Skiena, and other algorithms faculty.

Schedule.

Date Activities Remarks
Wed, Aug 28 Talk by Professor Dan Halperin of Tel Aviv University on
"Multi-Robot Motion Planning: The Easy, the Hard and the Uncharted"
Talk Abstract and Speaker Bio
Scribes: Xigao Li, Mary Taft
Wed, Sep 4 Prof. Steve Skiena poses a new problem on finding "Spatial Correlation" Scribes: Tianchi Mo, Harsh Chandnani, Ishan Sohony, Vishnu Dutt Paladugu, Diksha Saini
Wed, Sep 11 We continued our discussion on the spatial correlation problem from last week Scribes: Abhiram Karri, Darshil Gada, Shivangi Sonie, Vincent Femia
Wed, Sep 18 Prof. Joseph Mitchell poses a number of brand new open problems Scribes: Paras Avkirkar, Kajal Dalvi, Kaustav Sarkar, Pulkit Kalia, Tithi Gupta
Wed, Sep 25 We continued our discussion on the problems Prof. Joseph Mitchell posed last week Scribes: Debapriya Mukherjee, Omik Gokul Mahajan, Saquib Ali Khan, Sayali Anil Alatkar, Yunting Yin
Wed, Oct 2 We continued our discussion on the problems from last week Scribes: Adnan Vasanwalla, Alisa Yurovsky, Debesh Mohanty, Mahathi Gunturu
Wed, Oct 9 We discussed the "Apple Orchard Problem" Scribes: Gaganraj Maheshwari, Payal Mehta, Sushravya Shimoga Narasimha Prasad, Rutvik Parekh
Wed, Oct 16 We went back to our discussion on the problem from Oct 2 Scribes: Sagar Sahai, Bhuvnesh Kumar, Jay Kakkad, Kenneth Chiguichon
Wed, Oct 23 We continued our discussion from last week on connected dominating sets Scribes: Ankitha Kundhuru, Anmol Shukla, Huy Vu, Ujwal Vemula, Hima Upadhyay
Wed, Oct 30 We continued our discussion from last week Scribes: Ruchit Modi, Deepankar Singla, Mohit Laxman Gurnani, Sagar Raisinghani, Saurabh Tyagi
Wed, Nov 6 Prof. Jie Gao started a discussion on "Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks" Scribes: Sanket Varkhede, Krishna Donkada, Raji Reddy Annadi, Vigneshwaran Mylsamy, Aayush Sureka
Wed, Nov 13 We continued our discussion on "Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks" Scribes: Jatin Sood, Malvika Pandey, Shivam Singh
Wed, Nov 20 We continued our discussion on "Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks" Scribes: Jeremy Chu, Shoaib Sheriff, Shubhi Nigam, Sudharsn Kumar, Utkarsh Garg
Wed, Nov 27 Thanksgiving Break -
Wed, Dec 4 We continued our discussion on "Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks" Scribes: Akshay Nehe, Amit Dharmadhikari, Neeraj Ganu, Veerendra Ramesh Kakarla

Past Offerings.