January 5, 2011 - January 9, 2011

The 2011 School on Approximability

Location: Bangalore, India

Event Sponsors

India Schools

The focus of this school will be the approximability of optimization problems. Traditionally, approximability used to be a two-pronged task divided into algorithms and complexity but recently, a lot of cross-fertilization is taking place and the boundaries between algorithms and complexity are blurring. One of the goals of this school would be to further bring down this divide and promote a holistic thinking about approximability, which should lead to exciting new developments in the area.

The school will bring together key contributors in this area to discuss these modern methods to a large research audience. In addition, the school will also have talks and open sessions for sharing new research and directions in approximability.

Organization

Co-Chairs

Support from IISc and MSR India

  • G. Rangarajan (opens in new tab)(Convener, IISc Mathematics Initiative)
  • Vidya Natampally (Microsoft Research India, Director of Strategy)
  • Ashwani Sharma (Microsoft Research India, Program Manager, External Research)