Dana Randall

      Professor, College of Computing
      Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematics
      Georgia Institute of Technology

      Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CS, 1994
      A.B., Harvard University, Mathematics, 1988
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    Stupid things I do
    Fall 2009 -- Currently teaching:
      CS 6550 -- Graduate Algorithms

    Spring 2010 -- Teaching:
      CS 8803 MCM: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms.

    The 2009 AMS Arnold Ross Lecture:
      October 29, 2009 at the Augusta National Science Center
      (An article on the lecture that appeared in Verge Magazine)

    DIMACS / Georgia Tech 2006-09 Special Focus on Discrete Random Systems:
    • Overview of Georgia Tech events
    • DIMACS website

    Research interests:
    • Randomized algorithms
    • Markov chain Monte Carlo
    • Computational problems from statistical physics
    • Combinatorics

    Current and former students:
    • Nayantara Bhatnagar
    • Sam Greenberg
    • Russell Martin
    • Sarah Miracle
    • Amanda Pascoe

    Useful links:
    • Theory group
    • Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization


        Contact information:
      2140 Klaus Advanced Computing Building
      College of Computing
      Georgia Institute of Technology
      Atlanta, GA 30332-0765
      (404)-894-3156 (cs. dept. phone)
      (404)-894-9846 (fax)
      randall at cc dot gatech dot edu