The First Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO04)


ANALCO 2004
Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics

Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, New Orleans
January 10, 2003

8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast (Grand Ballroom A/B)
 
8:30 AM
Opening Discussion
 
9:00 AM
Theory and Practice of Counting Algorithms
Philippe Flajolet, INRIA, Rocquencourt
 
10:00 AM
Coffee Break (Grand Ballroom A/B)
 
10:30 AM
Analysis of a Randomized Selection Algorithm Motivated by the LZ77 Scheme (pdf)
Mark Ward and Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue
 
11:00 AM
The Complexity of Jensen’s Algorithm for Counting Polyominoes (pdf)
Gill Barequet and Micha Moffie, Technion, Haifa
 
11:30 AM
Distributional Analyses of Euclidean Algorithms (pdf)
Viviane Baladi and Brigitte Vallée, CNRS, France
 
12:00 PM
Lunch (attendees on their own)
 
1:30 PM
A Simple Primality Test and the rth Smallest Prime Factor (pdf)
Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Ottowa, Bruce Richmond and Martha Yip, University of Waterloo
 
2:00 PM
Gap-free Samples of Geometric Random Variables (pdf)
Pawel Hitczenko, Drexel, and Arnold Knopfmacher, Wits University, Johannesburg
 
2:30 PM
Computation of a Class of Continued Fraction Constants (pdf)
Loïck Lhote, Université de Caen, France
 
3:00 PM
Coffee Break (Grand Ballroom A/B)
 
3:30 PM
Compositions and Patricia Tries: No Fluctuations in the Variance (pdf)
Helmut Prodinger, Wits University, Johannesburg
 
4:00 PM
Quadratic Convergence for Scaling of Matrices (pdf)
Martin Fürer, Penn State
 
4:30 PM
Partial Quicksort (pdf)
Conrado Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
 
5:00 PM
Panel on Future Directions
 
6:00 PM
SODA Welcome Reception (Grand Ballroom D)

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