Dear MTD Friends, The final schedule for the 52nd Midwest Theory Day (this Saturday, May 6, at Indiana University Bloomington) along with updated driving directions and maps of and to Indiana University Bloomington have just been posted: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/52ndMTD Please note that Bloomington is now on Eastern Daylight Time. We will start with lunch, at noon, in Lindley Hall (LH) 216 (this is the famous sunken lounge also known as The Abyss; lunch is provided) We then move to LH102, the amphitheater on the first floor, on the north side of the building, for the presentations. You can pick up the parking permits there if you have requested a parking permit. Floor plans of Lindley are on the "directions" page, along with maps and directions to Bloomington, location on the map of garages on campus where one can park for free on weekends (Atwater and Poplars) and much more: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/52ndMTD/directions.html This being the last message before the meeting we hope to see everyone on Saturday, and we're looking forward to the meeting and the presentations. Have a safe trip and if you need any help or have any questions please let us know. Please forward a copy of this invitation to those that might be interested in attending and may have not received the message directly. Best regards, Adrian German ----(Schedule of presentations: )---------------------------------------- 1:00-2:15pm in LH102 Distinguished Invited Lecture: The Dynamics of Complex Networks Prof. Fan Chung Graham (University of California at San Diego) 2:15-2:45pm in LH102 Complexity of Combinatorial Optimization in Power Law Graphs Gopal Panduragan (Purdue University) 2:45-3:15pm in LH102 Dimension Characterizations of Complexity Classes Xiaoyang Gu (Iowa State University) 3:15-3:45pm in LH102 Parity Edge-Coloring of Graphs Kevin Milans (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) 3:45-4:15pm in LH102 Splitting (Complicated) Surfaces is Hard Erin Wolf Chambers (Univ of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) 4:15-4:45pm in LH102 Hardness Results on the Man-Exchange Stable Marriage Problem with Short Preference Lists Eric McDermid (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) 4:45-5:15pm in LH102 Computational Complexity of Some Enumeration Problems in Sparse Boolean Network Automata Predrag Tosic (Open Systems Lab, UIUC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts can be found on the MTD website. The following MTD (the 53rd) will be at Purdue, on Saturday, December 2, 2006 in the organization of Prof. Gopal Panduragan. An announcement will be made this Saturday at the meeting to that effect. See you all there! --------------------------------------------------------------------------