COMBINATORIAL ALGORITHMS GROUP University of Victoria

Welcome to all. We are the Combinatorial Algorithms Group, in the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria. The CAG e-mail list provides announcements for upcoming talks and conferences. You can subscribe or unsubscribe to the CAG e-mail list at http://mailman.csc.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/cag

CAG Talks: Spring 2012

Other department events.

A tribute to Brenna Jaclyn Innes, my NSERC summer undergraduate student.

Upcoming conferences:

1. ANALCO12: Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics. Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 16, 2012.
2. ALENEX12: Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments. Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 16, 2012.
3. SODA 2012: ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 17-19, 2012.
4. 43rd SE International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton Florida, March 5-9, 2012.
   Submissions: Feb. 6, 2012.
5. LATIN 2012: Latin American Theoretical Computer Science Symposium Arequipa, Peru, Apr. 16-20, 2012,
6. WCCCE 2012: Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education 2012, UBC, Vancouver, May 4-5, 2012.
   Submissions: Abstracts due Feb. 27.
7. PDMW 2012: Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop 2012, University of Calgary, May 4-5, 2012.
8. East Coast Combinatorics Conference Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, May 9-11, 2012.
9. Ottawa/Carleton Discrete Math Day, Herzberg Laboratories, Carleton University, May 11, 2012.
10. STOC 2012: 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, New York, New York, May 19-22, 2012.
    Paper submission deadline: November 2, 2011.
11. FUN 2012: Sixth International Conference on FUN with Algorithms, San Sevolo Island, Venice, Italy, June 4-6, 2012.
12. DM12: 16th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Jun 18-21, 2012.
13. IWOCA 2012: International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, Kalasalingam University, Anand Nagar, Krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu, India, July 19-21, 2012.
    Paper submissions due Feb. 20, poster submissions due March 12.
14. BRIDGES 2012: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, and Culture, Towson University, Baltimore, July 25-29, 2012.
    Submissions:
    Regular Papers: February 5, 2012.
    Short Papers: March 15, 2012.
    Workshop Papers: March 1, 2012.
15. CCCG 2012: 24th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, Aug. 8-10, 2012.
16. COCOON 2012: 18th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 20-22, 2012.
17. CSD6: Computers in Scientific Discovery 6, Portorož, Slovenia, Aug. 21-25, 2012.
    Submissions: due May 31, 2012.
18. 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 10-14, 2012.
19. Coast Combinatorics Conference, Outrigger Keahou Beach Resort, Big Island, Hawaii, Feb. 18-22, 2013.
20. CanaDAM 2013: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, June 10 - 13, 2013.
21. BCC24: 24th British Combinatorial Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, June 30 to July 5, 2013.
22. Previous Events

Our research interests include:

• Graph Theory and Graph Algorithms
• Combinatorics and Combinatorial Algorithms
• Computational Geometry
• Randomized Algorithms
• Computational Complexity
• Network Reliability
• Topological Graph Theory
• Computational Biology
• Cryptography
• Design Theory

Faculty Members: Computer Science

• John Ellis
• Sudhakar Ganti
• Bruce Kapron
• Valerie King
• Wendy Myrvold
• Dale Olesky
• Dominique Roelants van Baronaigien (at Malaspina University College)
• Frank Ruskey
• Venkatesh Srinivasan
• Ulrike Stege
• Sue Whitesides

Faculty Members: Mathematics and Statistics

• Ernie J. Cockayne
• Peter Dukes
• Jing Huang
• Gary MacGillivray
• Don Miller
• Keika Mynhardt
• Pauline van den Driessche
• Anthony Quas

Faculty Members: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michael Adams