Professor Micah Adler Address: Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-4610 USA Home: 90 North Prospect Street Amherst, MA 01002 USA Office: Computer Science Building 334 Phone: 1-413-577-0233 Fax: 1-413-545-1249 Home: 1-413-253-7775 E-Mail: micah@cs.umass.edu

Teaching:

• Current Semester (Spring 2005):
  CMPSCI 711: Really Advanced Algorithms
  Advanced graduate course.
  
  
• Last Semester (Fall 2004):
  CMPSCI 611: Advanced Algorithms
  Core graduate course.
  
  
• Previous Semesters.
  
  

Research:

• Design and analysis of efficient algorithms, especially for the following areas:
• Communication networks.
• Internet security.
• The World Wide Web.
• Packet routing.
• Mobile and wireless computation/communication.
• Parallel and distributed computation.
• Using and developing techniques in:
• Communication complexity.
• Randomized computation.
• Combinatorics.
• Coding theory.
• Lower bounds.
• Queuing theory.

• TAPADS - Prof. Arnold L. Rosenberg, Prof. Ramesh K. Sitaraman and I co-direct the Theoretical Aspects of Parallel and Distributed Systems Lab.
• THEORY- I am also a member of the theory group.

• Brent Heeringa
• Junning Liu

• On the program committee for DCOSS 2005.
• On the program committee for FOCS 2004.
• The program committee chair for SPAA 2004.
• An organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithmic Aspects of Large and Complex Networks (2003)
• On the program committee for SPAA 2003.
• On the program committee for CCW 2002.
• On the program committee for SWAT 2002.
• An organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithmic Aspects of Large and Complex Networks (2001)
• An organizer of the DIMACS Workshop on Multicasting: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications (2001)
• On the program committee for PODC 2001.
• On the program committee for HiPC 2001.
• On the program committee for ESA 2001.
• On the program committee for IWST 2001.
• An organizer of the DIMACS Summer School on Foundations of Wireless Networks and Applications (2000)
• On the program committee for SPAA 2000.
• The SPAA Revue chair for SPAA 1999.

• From August 1997 to July 1999, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. I was in the Theory Group of the Department of Computer Science.
  
• In the spring of 1997, I was a member of the research group of Professor Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute in Paderborn Germany. I was also a member of the Graduate College.
  
• I received a Ph.D. from the Computer Science Division at U. C. Berkeley in December 1996.
• I received a B.S. from M.I.T. in June, 1990.
• Between MIT and Berkeley, I worked at Oracle.

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