MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Freed
561-297-3022, lfreed@fau.edu

FAU Frontiers in Science Lecture Series
Searching for the Shortest Network: Accomplishments, Present Activities and Future Challenges

WHAT: Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science presents the fourth lecture of its Spring 2006 series - "Searching for the Shortest Network: Accomplishments, Present Activities and Future Challenges."

WHEN: Thursday, February 2, 2006
3:30 p.m.

WHERE: FAU Boca Raton Campus
Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Center
Room 126

COST: Free and open to the public

CONTACT NUMBER: Patsy Jones - 561-297-1307

DESCRIPTION: Mathematicians have been challenged for nearly two centuries with the classical problem of finding a telecommunication network with the shortest possible length. Today, this issue has great relevance in such diverse areas as the makeup of these networks, as well as the design of the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) electronic chips and molecular structure. Known as the "Mathemagician," Dr. Ron Graham - an Irwin and Joan Jacobs professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego - will summarize past accomplishments, present activities and future challenges of this topic.

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