Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to announce the Cowles Foundation Conference on Optimization,
which will take place on March 20th and 21st, 2006.
The list of speakers will include:
Farid Alizadeh (Rutgers)
Sanjeev Arora (Princeton)
Dmitri Bertsimas (MIT)
Lisa Fleischer (IBM Watson)
Rob Freund (MIT)
Baruch Schieber (IBM Watson)
Cliff Stein (Columbia)
Maxim Sviridenko (IBM Watson)
Michael Overton (NYU)
Michael Todd (Cornell)
Santosh Vempala (MIT)
David Williamson (Cornell)
Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia)
The talks on Monday the 20th will take place in LOM 201,
and the talks on Tuesday the 21st will take place in AKW 200.
We will announce a precise schedule of talks in the next few days.
There will be a dinner for the conference attendees on March 20th.
Although seating is limited, please let us know if you are interested
in attending.
Sincerely yours,
Herb Scarf and Dan Spielman