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.