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Some Adventures in Combinatorial Computing: small data and extreme computing

Algebra & Discrete Mathematics

Speaker: Jon Lee, University of Michigan
Related Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/jonleewebpage/
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, May 21 2015, 4:10PM

I will describe some of my adventures in using mathematics to push the limits of computing for some combinatorial problems: matroid optimization, Euclidean Steiner problems, and enumerating points in polytopes. Spanning a range of six orders of magnitude in cost, probably you have never done scientific computing on hardware that is more powerful nor less powerful than some that I will describe.