Tutorials:

There will be tutorials on Saturday, October 22nd, at the Carnegie Mellon University campus, in conjunction with Frieze Fest. These events will be held in the "University Center", which is location "C" on this map. The schedule is:

Morning:

Frieze Fest talks: details below. Registration required, free till Sep 30th. In particular, please register if you would like lunch provided to you on Saturday.

Afternoon:

1:30-3:30: Tutorial 1: (McConomy Room)
On the Unique Games Conjecture, Subhash Khot (Chair Irit Dinur)

3:30-4:00 break

4:00-6:00: Tutorial 2: (Rangos Ballroom)
Algorithmic Techniques and Tools from Computational Geometry, Bernard Chazelle (Chair Sariel Har-Peled)

Details on traveling from the hotel to the Carnegie Mellon campus are given here.

Frieze Fest:

There will also be other talks of interest on Friday and Saturday, as part of Frieze Fest 2005, which is a celebration of Alan Frieze's 60th birthday. Registration is required to attend Frieze Fest. (Free till September 30th.)

Saturday's talks (complete details here):

9:00-10:00: Eli Upfal, Brown University

10:00-10:30: Break

10:30-11:00: Dimitris Achlioptas, Microsoft Research

11:05-11:30: Andrei Broder, IBM

11:40-12:15: Richard Karp, University of California at Berkeley