Category: Seminars

  • New Algorithms for Constrained Clustering Problems

    Speaker: Qilong Feng(Central South University) Time: 11:00 (Time in Beijing) 15:00 (Time in Auckland) June 17, 2021 (Thursday) Venue: Baixue Tang, UESTC Library Abstract: Designing approximation algorithms for the clustering problem remains an active area of research. However, these algorithms can significantly deteriorate their performance in real-world applications. The major reason is that real-world applications […]

  • PPSZ on unique-kSAT

    Speaker: Jian Ma (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 10:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 14:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) June 11, 2021 (Friday) VooVmeeting: Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/jSsMAf9XBBZ7 ID: 166 684 100 Venue: Main Building Abstract: The CNF satisfiability problem is defined as follows: given a CNF formula , decide if there exists truth-value assignment to […]

  • A Fast Algorithm for SAT in Terms of Formula Length

    Speaker: Junqiang Peng (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 10:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 14:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) June 4, 2021 (Friday) VooVmeeting: Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/2p05iZpS1RvT ID: 973 577 922 Password: 1949 Venue: Main Building Abstract: The CNF satisfiability problem is defined as follows: given a CNF formula , decide if there exists a […]

  • Score aggregation in social choice

    Speaker: Mingyu Xiao (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 9:00-12:00 May 29, 2021 (Saturday) VooVmeeting: ZOOM Conference ID: 748 677 4340 Venue: Lotus Room, Orient Hotel Xi’an Abstract: In a score aggregation system, several agents give scores to a set of candidates independently, and we are going to combine the individual scores […]

  • Random Sampling of Important Separators: New Bounds and New Applications

    Speaker: Huairui Chu (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 10:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 14:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) May 28, 2021 (Friday) VooVmeeting: Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/xtCxnutcKyYJ ID: 447 185 012 Password: 1949 Venue: Main Building Abstract: Important separator is a well-known concept for solving problems about graphs in parameterized algorithm sense. Marx and Razgon […]

  • Kernelization for Feedback Vertex Set based on linear programming

    Speaker: Tian Bai (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 10:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 14:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) May 21, 2021 (Friday) VooVmeeting: Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/QfT7QuGrXPBQ ID: 582 848 199 Password: 1949 Venue: Main Building Abstract: Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) is a problem to determine whether a given undirected graph has a vertex set […]

  • Some efficient algorithms for the k-vertex cover problem

    Speaker: Yijia Chen(Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Time: 11:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 15:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) May 20, 2021 (Thursday) Venue: B1-501, Main Building Abstract: Let be a fixed constant. The -vertex cover problem asks, for an input graph , whether contains vertices which intersect every edge in . The problem has been studied extensively both […]

  • Kernels for Planar Vertex-Disjoint Triangle Packing

    Speaker: Zimo Sheng (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 10:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 14:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) May 14, 2021 (Friday) VooVmeeting: Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/oLdo3h9nEQlW ID: 655 461 488 Venue: Main Building Abstract: Triangle Packing is an important class of NP-hard problem. In this paper, we study Parameterized Planar Vertex-Disjoint Triangle Packing problem, […]

  • Approximation Algorithms for the Traveling Tournament Problem with Maximum Tour Length Two

    Speaker: Jingyang Zhao (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 10:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 14:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) May 07, 2021 (Friday) VooVmeeting: Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/smb8sodAC9nv ID: 559 715 185 Venue: Main Building Abstract: The Traveling Tournament Problem is a complex combinatorial optimization problem in tournament timetabling, which asks us to design a double […]

  • Efficient Reductions and a Fast Algorithm of Maximum Weighted Independent Set

    Speaker: Sen Huang (University of Electronic and Science Technology of China) Time: 10:00-12:00 (Time in Beijing) 14:00-16:00 (Time in Auckland) April 23, 2021 (Friday) VooVmeeting: Link: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/XOBiQORlo9f9 ID: 860 317 588 Venue: B1-514, Main Building Abstract: The maximum independent set problem is one of the most fundamental problems in graph algorithms and has been widely […]