Program schedule

Thursday 10th, 2011

8:00 - 8:45 Registration
8:45 - 9:00
Opening
9:00 - 10:00 Susanne Albers
Energy-Efficient Algorithms

Coffee Break

Session 2A -
Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Computing
Session 2B
Data Words and Data Trees
10:20 - 10:45 Saverio Caminiti, Irene Finocchi and Emanuele Guido Fusco
Local dependency dynamic programming in the presence of memory faults

Luc Segoufin and Szymon Torunczyk
Automata based verification over linearly ordered data domains

10:45 - 11:10 George Giakkoupis
Tight bounds for rumor spreading in graphs of a given conductance

Diego Figueira and Luc Segoufin
Bottom-up automata on data trees and vertical XPath

11:10 - 11:35 Liah Kor, Amos Korman and David Peleg
Tight Bounds For Distributed MST Verification

Mikolaj Bojanczyk
Data Monoids


Coffee Break

Session 3A -
Cuts and Flows
Session 3B -
Computational Geometry
11:50 - 12:15 Haim Kaplan and Yahav Nussbaum
Minimum s-t cut in undirected planar graphs when the source and the sink are close

Jiun-Jie Wang and Xin He
Compact visibility of plane graphs

12:15 - 12:40 Petr Kolman and Christian Scheideler
Towards Duality of Multicommodity Multiroute Cuts and Flows: Multilevel Ball-Growing

Jérémie Chalopin, Shantanu Das, Yann Disser, Matus Mihalak and Peter Widmayer
Telling convex from reflex allows to map a polygon


Lunch Break

Session 4A -
Kernelization
Session 4B
Morphisms, Words, Bio Computing
14:30 - 14:55 Hans L. Bodlaender, Bart M.P. Jansen and Stefan Kratsch
Cross-Composition: A New Technique for Kernelization Lower Bounds

Scott Summers, Matthew Patitz, Robert Schweller and Erik Demaine
Self-Assembly of Arbitrary Shapes Using RNAse Enzymes: Meeting the Kolmogorov Bound With Small Scale Factor
14:55 - 15:20 Bart M.P. Jansen and Hans L. Bodlaender
Vertex Cover Kernelization Revisited: Upper and Lower Bounds for a Refined Parameter

Dominik D. Freydenberger, Hossein Nevisi and Daniel Reidenbach
Weakly Unambiguous Morphisms

15:20 - 15:45 Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Neeldhara Misra, Geevarghese Philip and Saket Saurabh
Hitting forbidden minors: Approximation and Kernelization

Francine Blanchet-Sadri and John Lensmire
On Minimal Sturmian Partial Words


Coffee Break

Session 5A -
SAT & CSP
Session 5B -
Cellular Automata
16:00 - 16:25 Timon Hertli, Robin Moser and Dominik Scheder
Improving PPSZ for 3-SAT using Crtitical Variables

Alex Borello, Gaétan Richard and Véronique Terrier
A speed-up of oblivious multi-head finite automata by cellular automata

16:25 - 16:50 Heng Guo, Sangxia Huang, Pinyan Lu and Mingji Xia
The Complexity of Weighted Boolean #CSP Modulo k

Nazim Fates
Stochastic Cellular Automata Solve the Density Classification Problem with an Arbitrary Precision

16:50 - 17:15 Martin Dyer and David Richerby
The #CSP Dichotomy is Decidable

Ana Busic, Jean Mairesse and Irene Marcovici
Probabilistic cellular automata, invariant measures, andperfect sampling


17:15: Currywurst snack
18:00: Departure for the visit of the Zollern Colliery and the visit of the football stadium of Borussia Dortmund



Friday 11th, 2011

9:00 - 10:00 Georg Gottlob
Structural Decomposition Methods, and What They are Good For

Coffee Break

Session 7A -
Clustering and Learning
Session 7B -
Logic
10:20 - 10:45 Marcel R. Ackermann, Johannes Blömer, Daniel Kuntze and Christian Sohler
Analysis of Agglomerative Clustering
Balder ten Cate and Luc Segoufin
Unary negation
10:45 - 11:10 John Case and Timo Kötzing
Measuring learning complexity with criteria epitomizers
Jakub Kallas, Manfred Kufleitner and Alexander Lauser
First-order Fragments with Successor over Infinite Words
11:10 - 11:35 Howard Karloff, Flip Korn, Konstantin Makarychev and Yuval Rabani
On Parsimonious Explanations For 2-D Tree- and Linearly-Ordered Data
Martin Mundhenk and Felix Weiß
The model checking problem for propositional intuitionistic logic with one variable is AC1-complete

Coffee Break

Session 8A-
Scheduling 1
Session 8B
Graph Decomposition
11:50 - 12:15 Alejandro López-Ortiz and Claude-Guy Quimper
A Fast Algorithm for Multi-Machine Scheduling Problems with Jobs of Equal Processing Times
Robert Ganian, Petr Hlineny and Jan Obdrzalek
Clique-width: When Hard Does Not Mean Impossible
12:15 - 12:40 Sze-Hang Chan, Tak-Wah Lam and Lap-Kei Lee
Scheduling for Weighted Flow Time and Energy with Rejection Penalty

Dariusz Dereniowski
From Pathwidth to Connected Pathwidth

Lunch Break

Session 9A -
Streaming
Session 9B -
Recursion Theory

14:30 - 14:55 Andrew McGregor, Atri Rudra and Steve Uurtamo
Polynomial Fitting of Data Streams with Applications to Codeword Testing
Laurent Bienvenu, Wolfgang Merkle and André Nies
Solovay functions and K-triviality
14:55 - 15:20 Alex Levin and Jonathan Kelner
Spectral Sparsification in the Semi-Streaming Setting
Andrey Rumyantsev
Everywhere complex sequences and probabilistic method


Coffee Break

Session 10 A -
Scheduling 2
Session 10B -
Regular Expressions
15:35 - 16:00 Magnus M. Halldorsson, Boaz Patt-Shamir and Dror Rawitz
Online Scheduling with Interval Conflicts
Stefan Gulan
Graphs Encoded by Regular Expressions
16:00 - 16:25 Christian Eggermont, Alexander Schrijver and Gerhard Woeginger
Analysis of multi-stage open shop processing systems
Dominik Freydenberger
Extended Regular Expressions: Succinctness and Decidability

Coffee Break

Session 11A -
Graph Algorithms
Session 11B -
Algebra & Complexity
16:40 - 17:05 Maxim Babenko and Alexey Gusakov
New Exact and Approximation Algorithms for the Star Packing Problem in Undirected Graphs
Bruno Grenet, Erich L Kaltofen, Pascal Koiran and Natacha Portier
Symmetric Determinantal Representation of Weakly-Skew Circuits

17:05 - 17:30 Antonios Antoniadis, Falk Hüffner, Pascal Lenzner, Carsten Moldenhauer and Alexander Souza
Balanced Interval Coloring

Markus Bläser and Christian Engels
Randomness Efficient Testing of Sparse Blackbox Identities of Unbounded Degree over the Reals

Conference Dinner



Saturday 12th, 2011

9:00 - 10:00 Véronique Cortier
How to prove security of communication protocols?


Coffee Break

Session 13A -
Complexity of Graph & Group Problems
Session 13B -
Verification
10:20 - 10:45 Youming Qiao, Jayalal Sarma M.N. and Bangsheng Tang
On isomorphism testing of groups with normal hall subgroups
Pawel Parys
Collapse Operation
Increases Expressive
Power of Deterministic
Higher Order
Pushdown Automata

10:45 - 11:10 Samir Datta, Raghav Kulkarni, Raghunath Tewari and N.V. Vinodchandran
Space Complexity
of Perfect Matching
in Bounded Genus Bipartite Graphs
Orna Kupferman, Yoad
Lustig, Moshe Vardi and
Mihalis Yannakakis
Temporal Synthesis for
Bounded Systems and
Environments

11:10 - 11:25 George B. Mertzios
The Recognition of Triangle Graphs
Denis Kuperberg
Linear temporal logic
for regular cost
functions


Coffee Break

Session 14A -
Geometry and Complexity
Session 14B -
Query Complexity
11:50 - 12:15 Adrian Dumitrescu, Andre Schulz, Adam Sheffer and CSABA D. Toth
Bounds on the Maximum Multiplicity of some Common Geometric Graphs
Andrew Childs and Robin Kothari
Quantum query complexity of minor-closed graph properties
12:15 - 12:40 Christian Knauer, Hans Raj Tiwary and Daniel Werner
On the computational complexity of Ham-Sandwich cuts, Helly sets, and related problems
Anna Gal and Andrew Mills
Three querylocally decodable codes with higher correctness require exponential length

Snacks & Sandwiches