Microsoft Research Open Problems
The list below contains the open problems presented at Microsoft Research Theory Lunch.
A list of open problems for internal access only can be found here
A list of open problems for internal access only can be found here
2012:
| October 3 | Questions from Tom Bohman on random bipartite graphs (see PDF) |
| September 19 | Questions from Jeff Steif on the sensitiviy of boolean functions (see PDF) |
| September 12 | Questions from Shayan Oveis Gharan on random walks and Yuval Peres on the critical probability of random graphs (see PDF) |
| September 5 | Questions from Russell Lyons on Glauber Dynamics and Yuval Peres on another interesting hat question (see PDF) |
| August 29 | Questions from Mohit Singh on demand matchings and distributions over independent sets on trees (see PDF) |
| August 22 | Questions from László Lovász on when to stop a Monte-Carlo Markov chain (see PDF) |
| August 8 | Questions from László Lovász on distances of random graphs (see PDF) |
| May 24 | Questions from Alexander Holroyd on perfect shuffling by random transpositions (see PDF) |
| May 17 | Questions from Chandra Chekuri on complexity of submodular partitioning (see PDF) |
| February 15 | Questions from Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira on the cat-and-mouse game (see PDF) and Serguei Popov on the range of many-dimensional martingales (see PDF) |
2011:
| October 5 | Questions from Pawel Pralat on the firefighter problem (see PDF) and Nicolas Curien on Rémy's algorithm for generating random binary trees (see PDF) |
| September 28 | Questions from Pawel Pralat on the cops and robbers problem (see PDF) |
| September 14 | Questions from Ben Morris (see PDF) |
| September 7 | Questions from Peter Winkler (see PDF) |
| August 31 | Questions from Alexandre Stauffer on balls and bins (see PDF) |
