Meeting Agenda

Date:	October 25, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Matthew Thorne

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Alex- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	November 1, 2012	November 8, 2012	November 15, 2012	November 22, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Dan Vogel	Grace Yao	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan
Technical Presentation:	Alex Pytel	Matthew Thorne	Dan Vogel	Grace Yao

4. Technical Presentation

Simon Parent	Title : The Sprague-Grundy Theorem Abstract: Every Computer Scientist knows how to decide who wins a game, if given the complete tree of game states. I will present the Sprague-Grundy Theorem as an extension of this basic concept. It will allow us to solve all those annoying games involving heaps of beans, or rows of pebbles, or whatever. By the end of this talk, you will able to trivialize question B5 on the 1995 Putnam Math Competition.

Simon Parent

Title : The Sprague-Grundy Theorem
Abstract:
Every Computer Scientist knows how to decide who wins a game, if given the complete tree of game states. I will present the Sprague-Grundy Theorem as an extension of this basic concept. It will allow us to solve all those annoying games involving heaps of beans, or rows of pebbles, or whatever. By the end of this talk, you will able to trivialize question B5 on the 1995 Putnam Math Competition.

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

Oct 29, 2012: SPM'12 Conference

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2012 Oct 25, 2:30PM : Pure Mathematics (Learning Seminar On Finite Relational Structures), MC 5046
Ian Payne
Please Be Discrete When Discussing Homotopy

2012 Oct 25, 3:30PM : Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar), MC 5136B
Yen-Liang Kuan
On the distribution of torsion points modulo primes

2012 Oct 29, 11:00 : Database Research Group Seminar, DC 1304
Azza Abouzied,Yale University
Learning Database Queries with Membership Questions

2012 Oct 29, 2:30PM : Institute for Quantum Computing , QNC 0101
Dr. Umesh Vazirani
Certifiable Quantum Dice 

2012 Oct 29, 3:30PM : Computational Mathematics , Davis Centre, Room 1302
Tim Roughgarden
Porting the Computer Science Toolbox to Game Theory and Economics

2012 Oct 29, 4:00PM : Pure Mathematics (Special Presentation), MC 5158
Janusz Adamus
Towards singular CR geometry; tameness of complex dimensions in semianalytic sets.
     
2012 Oct 30, 3:30PM : Pure Mathematics (Logic Seminar), MC 5136B
Pantelis Eleftheriou
Model-theoretic constructions in many-valued modal logics

Also see other Math and CS postings.