52722 event 1265903865 1475891405 <![CDATA[ARC2 Distinguished Speaker - Leslie Valiant, Harvard]]> Leslie Valiant (Harvard) will be the distinguished speaker for ARC2 (ARC's annual event) on Tue, Oct 21. Registration required (free) at: http://www.arc.gatech.edu/arc2.php.

For more information, please contact Allyana Ziolko - allyana@cc.gatech.edu

ARC2
October 21, 2008 - Klaus Building, 1116E&W

Click here for registration

9:00 AM Breakfast
9:30 Talks (Random order) Dana Randall, ARC, Computer Science
Random Sampling, Random Surfaces and Self-assembly

Ton Dieker, ISyE
Capacity Optimization in Brownian Networks

Navin Goyal, ARC, Computer Science
Expanders via Random Spanning Trees Coffee Break 11:00 Distinguished Lecture Leslie Valiant
T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
TITLE: When Biology is Computation

12:00 - 2:00 PM Poster Session with lunch

"Behavioral Techniques for Spam Filtering". Anirudh Ramachandran
"Towards Practical Sampling of Convex Bodies", Justin Melvin
"Sampling with Bias Using Exponential Metrics", Sam Greenberg
"The core and column generation", Kael Stilp
"Graphic Realizations of Joint-Degree Matrices", Yorgos Amanatidis

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