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Mohammad R. Salavatipour
Ingenuity New Faculty
Associate Professor
Department of Computing Science,
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8

Office: 303 Athabasca Hall
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Phone: (780)492-1759
Fax: (780)492-1071

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Recent courses:

CMPUT 204: Algorithms I (Fall 2009)
CMPUT 675: Topics in Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization (Fall 2009)
CMPUT 272: Formal Systems and Logic in Computing Science (Winter 2009)
CMPUT 304: Algorithms II (Fall 2008)
CMPUT 675: Topics on Approximation Algorithms and Approximability (Fall 2007)

Older courses can be found here.

Students/Postdocs:

Current:

Babak Behsaz (Ph.D. student)

Zac Friggstad (Ph.D. student)

Amin Jorati (Ph.D. student)

Zoya Svitkina (postdoc)

Imran Pirwani (postdoc)

Former

Zhipeng Cai (Ph.D. co-supervised with G. Lin, 04-08)
Mohammad A. Safari (postdoc Oct'07-Aug'08)
Zac Friggstad (M.Sc. student, 05-07)

Conference Committees:

COCOON 2009 (Program committee)
Past committees: COCOON'07, CANADAM'07.

Research Interests

- Approximation and Randomized Algorithms
- Hardness of Approximation
- Algorithmic Graph Theory
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Probabilisitic and Discharging Methods

Last Update: July 2009