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Disjunctive programming is a classical technique for 0-1optimization in which a set of vertices of the hypercube is approximated by the convex hull of (carefully selected) polyhedra. Through the work of Lovasz, Schriver, Sherali and Adams, and others...

It has been known for over a century that there are many Riemannian metrics on the 2-sphere with the property that all of their geodesics are closed. Zoll, a student of Hilbert, constructed an infinite dimensional family of surfaces of rotation with...

In addition to frequent single-nucleotide mutations, mammalian and many other genomes undergo rare and dramatic changes called genome rearrangements. These include inversions, fissions, fusions, and translocations. Although analysis of genome...

When several large integers are added in the usual way 'carries' occur along the way. It is natural to ask: 'About how many carries are there and how are they distributed for typical numbers?' It turns out that these questions are intimately related...

Northwest Probability Seminars are one-day mini-conferences held at the University of Washington and organized in collaboration with the Oregon State University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Oregon, and the Theory Group at...

Mini-courses The Radon transform and the X-Ray Transform ( Gunther Uhlmann, Peter Kuchment). This course will describe in detail the essential properties of these transforms including inversion formulas. The X-ray transform is one of the basic...

The 2010 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Summer School in Probability will be held at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research from June 21 to July 10, 2010. The school will be devoted to training doctoral students...

The conference is in part a celebration of the past, present and future contributions to mathematics of Ken Goodearl. While the central connecting theme is noncommutative algebra, there will be coverage of the broad connections of this subject with...

Victor Klee and Branko Grunbaum founded several branches of modern combinatorics and discrete geometry and spent their long careers (a total of 100 years between them) at the University of Washington in Seattle. Klee passed away in 2007 and Grunbaum...