CanaDAM 2011 University of Victoria, May 31 - June 3, 2011 www.cms.math.ca//2011

# Schedule - Plenary Talks

Please note that schedules are subject to change without notice, particularly changes within a given session.

 Org: Program Committee (CanaDAM 2011) Tuesday May 31 8:50 - 9:40 Chandra Chekuri (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Submodular set function maximization via the multilinear relaxation and dependent randomized rounding, MacLaurin A144 14:00 - 14:50 Alice Silverberg (University of California at Irvine), Counting points on elliptic curves, from Gauss to the present, MacLaurin A144 Wednesday June 1 8:50 - 9:40 Allan Borodin (University of Toronto), When is it good to be greedy (in algorithm design), MacLaurin A144 14:00 - 14:50 Anne Bergeron (UQAM), The combinatorial beauty of genome evolution, MacLaurin A144 Thursday June 2 8:50 - 9:40 Stephan Thomasse (Université Montpellier 2), Applications of VC-dimension for Graphs and Hypergraphs, MacLaurin A144 14:00 - 14:50 Jeff Kahn (Rutgers University), Thresholds and expectation thresholds, MacLaurin A144 Friday June 3 8:50 - 9:40 Sara Billey (University of Washington), An introduction to $k$-Schur functions and QSYM, MacLaurin A144 14:00 - 14:50 Jacob Fox (MIT), Intersection Graphs, Drawings, Posets, and Separators, MacLaurin A144