The first of these was on

Saturday, March 17th

on the theme
Aha! Divide and Conquer.

These talks gave a pedagogical overview of how divide and conquer
based algorithms are designed and analyzed.

Time Title Speaker
10:00 - 11:30
Design-->Analyse--> Design:
Divide and Conquer Based Algorithms
 		   Pandu Rangan, IIT Madras
11:30 - 12:00 Tea/Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00
Solving Recurrence Relations
 		   Vikram Sharma, IMSc Chennai
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15
Demystifying Median Finding Algorithm
  		  Venkatesh Raman, IMSc Chennai