Vasek Chvátal is ‘the travelling professor’
Vasek Chvátal, of the Department of Computer Science, has spent most of his academic life studying a mathematical problem called The Travelling Salesman.
Meanwhile, his own life has taken him from Czechoslovakia to Canada, the United States and back to Montreal. Now he is settling in at Concordia with a new job and a new set of academic challenges, including applications in industry and neuroscience.
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Videographer Liz Miller profiles a U.S. city in hot water
For Liz Miller, working with video is about more than simply capturing the spectacle. The assistant professor Communication Studies believes that media are a means to democratic change, and small struggles often suggest larger issues.
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March 3 , 2005
In this issue
- $1.5-million project builds optical micro instruments
- Researcher explores the role of stress in the rise of depression
- Mikhail Iossel makes the transition
- Physics program to reopen
- Firm handshake, velvet glove
- New opera inspired by Yeats premieres here
- Sculpture will celebrate First Nations
- The secret lives of Concordia tango dancers
- Make the condom your amigo and help prevent AIDS
- Trading tales about teaching abroad
- Business student turns green, saves university
- Play about Frankenstein
- '(Never) touched her': Young artist illustrates dark family history
- Photo 400 group holds successful auction of their work
- Standjofski play onstage at D.B. Clarke
- Concordia Community Campaign: A great way to help students
- First Science Fair held today
- Make their day
- Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science 8th annual Teaching Excellence Awards
- In memoriam - Kirby Lee McGown / In memoriam - Jacquie Bayreuther-Gaiptman
- Hoping to go out with a bang
- Stingers roundup