Project news

Part of the CoSP Workshop and school on topological methods will be devoted to the administrative and management of the project. Representatives of Charles University, Technion and CNRS will meet at the meeting of the Management Comittee on 22nd July 2019.

THE TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM

July 30, 14--15:30 and 15:45--17.15

featured by Vašek Chvátal (Concordia University Montreal and Charles University, Prague)

in the lecture room S5 of the Schol of Informatics, Charles University, 

Malostranske nam. 25, Prague 1, Czech Republic

You can download the poster: 

plakat.pdf

Martin Loebl takes part in the public discussion on the H-method for teaching mathematics; to be held on Tuesday October 16 5 p.m. in the elementary school Chlupova in Prague.

Robert Samal from Charles University has successfully started his secondment at Simon Fraser University (Canada). He is going to hold a lecture on the binary paint shop problem. Details are below:

Date:  Tuesday October 22, 2019

Time:  13:30 - 14:20

Place:  SFU Burnaby, room K9509

Speaker: Robert Samal

Affiliation: Charles University

Title: The binary paint shop problem (aka necklace splitting problem) 

Abstract: A double occurrence word w is a word (sequence of  letters) in which each of its letters occurs exactly twice. Legal  2-coloring of w is a colouring of individual letters such that each  letter occurs once red and once blue. Our goal is  to find  for a double occurrence word w a legal 2-coloring with minimal  number of colour changes – neighbouring letters of different colour.

This question was motivated by an industrial application, however  we approach it like a pure combinatorial question -- proving a lower  bound (that disproved a conjecture), improving known upper bounds,  proving tight concentration, etc.

(Joint work with J. Hancl, A. Kabela, M. Opler, J. Sosnovec, P. Valtr)

December 3--December 4 in Prague

organised by Jan Hubicka and Jaroslav Nesetril

in the School of Informatics, Malostranske nam 25, Prague 1, Czech Republic

Professor Martin Loebl was invited to take part in the panel on education in the conference Three Decades of DIMACS. Prof. Loebl spoke about the education of young reasearchers within the CoSP project. The discussion took place on 22nd November 2019.

More information is here: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details?eID=1226

April 14--April 17 in Prague organised by Martin Loebl

in the School of Informatics, Malostranske nam 25, Prague 1, Czech Republic

1. The School is held Tue April 14 (9.00-- 12.20, lecture rooms S8, S9) and Wed April 15 (9.00-- 12.20, lecture room S8) and features 

Roman Neruda, Martin Pilat: Deep Learning Tutorial

In a series of four talks we present a gentle introduction to deep learning principles and applications. Several important deep neural architectures will be described, including multilayer perceptrons, convolutional networks, and recurrent networks. We will show practical examples of typical deep learning applications for image classification, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning as well as more exotic models like graph neural networks and neural Turing machines.

2. The Workshop is held Thu April 16 (9.00-- 13.00) and Fri April 17 and features several contributed talks.

This year a group of 12 Czech students attend to the Research Experience for Undergraduates programe at DIMACS, Rutgers University. This activity is supported by CoSP.

Given the corona virus crisis, the REU programme is conducted remotely. The Czech students form four groups mentored by researchers from Rutgers University and Princeton University

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