Survey of past minicourses

2009


Prof. Gabor Tardos, Simon Fraser University.
Traitor tracing.
October 5 - 7, 2009.


Prof. Jan Willem Klop, Emeritus VU Amsterdam.
Prof. Henk Barendregt, Radboud University Nijmegen
Lambda Calculus and Term Rewriting Systems.
Februari 16 - 20, 2009.


2008


Prof. Henry Cohn, Microsoft research, USA.
Packing, energy minimization, and exceptional structures.
March 10 - 14, 2008.


2007


Prof. Christos Papadimitriou, University of Berkeley, USA.
Dr. Marc Uetz, Universiteit Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Dr. Dries Vermeulen, Universiteit Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Algorithmic Game Theory.
Eindhoven, March 20 - 23, 2007.


Dr. Seth Sullivant, Harvard University, USA.
Algebraic Statistics.
Eindhoven, June 25 - 29, 2007.


Prof. Ueli Maurer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Dr. Renato Renner, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Cryptography.
Eindhoven, October 8 - 12, 2007.

2006


Dr. Moti Yung, Colombia University, USA.
Privacy and Cryptographic Mechanisms.
Eindhoven, March 8 - 12, 2006.


Prof. Michel Goemans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Approximation Algorithms.
Eindhoven, March 27 - 31, 2006.

2005

Prof. Arjen Lenstra, Lucent Technologies, USA and
Dr. Tanja Lange, TU Denmark.
Computational Methods in Public Key Cryptology.
Eindhoven, March 8 - 12, 2005.


Prof. Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Structural Graph Theory.
Eindhoven, June 6 - 10, 2005.


Prof. Marlos Viana, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and
Prof. Arjeh Cohen, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Symmetry Studies.
Eindhoven, March 14 - 18, 2005.
(organized in cooperation with EURANDOM)


2004


Prof. Éva Tardos, Cornell University, USA.
Approximation Algorithms and Games on Networks.
Eindhoven, May 10 - 14, 2004.


Prof. Bernhard Mühlherr, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Building and Groups of Lie Type.
Eindhoven, March 8 - 12, 2004.


Prof. Joachim Hagenauer, TU München, Germany, and
Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.
Iterative Decoding Techniques.
Eindhoven, February 16 - 20, 2004.


2003


Prof. Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University, USA.
Approximation Schemes for NP-hard Geometric Problems.
Eindhoven, September 1 - 5, 2003.


Prof. Victor Shoup, Courant Institute, New York University, USA.
Public Key Cryptography.
Eindhoven, May 12 - 16, 2003.


2002


Prof. Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan, USA.
Total Positivity.
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, April 15 - 19, 2002.


Prof. László Lovász, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA.
Graphs, Eigenvalues, and Geometric Representations.
Eindhoven, April 22 - 26, 2002.


Prof. John J. Cannon, University of Sydney, Australia.
Computational Theories in Algebra.
Eindhoven, April 15 - 19, 2002.


2001

Prof. Sergio Verdú, Princeton University, USA.
Multiuser Detection.
Eindhoven, October 29 - November 2, 2001.


Dr. Ivan Damgard, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Cryptographic Multiparty Protocols.
Eindhoven, June 18 - 22, 2001.


Prof. Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Matching Theory.
Eindhoven, March 5 - 9, 2001.


until 2001

Combinatorial optimization and algorithms, graph theory


MC-CCG-7:
Prof. Gérard P. Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Combinatorial Optimization: Packing and Covering.
Eindhoven, January 17-21, 2000.


MC-CCG-6:
Prof. Ravi Kannan, Yale University, USA,
Low-Rank Approximation of Matrices and Applications.
Amsterdam, May 31 - June 4, 1999.


MC-CCG-5
Dr. P. Raghavan, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA,
Randomized Algorithms.
Eindhoven, May 11-15, 1998.

MC-CCG-4
Prof.dr. W.J. Cook, Rice University, USA,
Computational Combinatorial Optimization.
Eindhoven, June 9-13, 1997.


MC-CCG-3
Dr. D.P. Williamson, IBM Watson Research Center, New York, USA,
Approximation algorithms.
Eindhoven, May 6-10, 1996.

MC-CCG-2
Prof.dr. B. Sturmfels, Cornell University, USA,
Algorithms in invariant theory.
Eindhoven, May 15-19, 1995.

MC-CCG-1
Prof.dr. A. Frank, Hungary,
Submodular functions and their applications in network design.
Eindhoven, October 24-28, 1994.


Coding Theory, Information Theory and Cryptology


MC-CIC-7
Prof.dr. James L. Massey, Switzerland,
Design and Analysis of Block Ciphers.
Eindhoven, May 8-12, 2000.


MC-CIC-6
Prof. P. Vijay Kumar, University of Southern California, USA,
Quaternary Codes and Sequences.
Eindhoven, June 7-11, 1999.


MC-CIC-5
Prof J. Ziv and prof. N. Merhav, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Universal Data Compression.
Eindhoven, May 11-15, 1998.


MC-CIC-4
Prof.dr. P. Landrock, Aarhus University, Denmark,
The theory and practise of public key cryptography.
Eindhoven, November 25-29, 1996.


MC-CIC-3
Dr. A.R. Calderbank, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA,
Bandwidth efficient communication.
Eindhoven, March 11-15, 1996.


MC-CIC-2
Prof.dr. R.J. McEliece, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA,
Coding for NASA's deep space program.
Optimal channel assignment algorithms.
Eindhoven, March 20-24, 1995.


MC-CIC-1
Dr. P.H. Siegel, IBM Almaden Research Center, CA, USA,
Signal processing and coding for digital recording channels.
Utrecht, March 21-25, 1994.


Discrete Algebra and Geometry


MC-DAG-7
Prof. Gil Kalai, Hebrew University, Israel,
Combinatorics of Convex Polytopes and the Simplex Algorithm.
Eindhoven, March 13-17, 2000.


MC-DAG-6
Prof. Noga Alon, Tel-Aviv University, Israel,
The Probabilistic Method.
Eindhoven, February 8-12, 1999.


MC-DAG-5
Prof. P.J. Cameron, QMW College, London, UK,
Permutation Groups.
Eindhoven, November 10-14, 1997,


MC-DAG-4
Prof.dr. R.M. Wilson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA,
Difference sets, codes and geometries.
Eindhoven, June 23-27, 1997.


MC-DAG-3
Prof. R.P. Stanley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA,
Enumerative combinatorics.
Eindhoven, January 8-12, 1996.


MC-DAG-2
Prof.dr. F. De Clerck, prof.dr. J.A. Thas, prof.dr. H. van Maldeghem, University of Gent, Belgium,
Generalized polygons and semipartial geometries.
Eindhoven, April 22-26, 1996.


MC-DAG-1
Eindhoven, September 26-30, 1994.

Program 2004 / 2005