Claire Mathieu
Contact Information
- Email: claire at cs.brown.edu
- Office 555
- Box 1910, Computer Science Department
- Brown University
- Providence, RI 02912
- 401-863-6066 (voice), 401-863-7657 (fax)
- Office 555
Contacting me. I check my mail box for paper mail once every few weeks; once in my office, paper quickly gets lost. My office phone does not have an answering machine. I favor travels to visit to research labs or CS departments over travels to conferences, so it is also difficult to see me in person. I am chronically behind in dealing with email and often let messages lag for weeks, sometimes months. I tend to not read emails that are addressed to groups of people instead of to me personally. But email is still the best way to reach me as I do try to deal with it, but there are no guarantees; every once in a while I get overwhelmed. I feel bad about my occasional failures to react to emails that would really need an answer. Please don't take it personally if you are one of the victims of this disorganization. This is why I will never be a dean.
A visit to Al Quds university
Teaching
Research
There are two directions to my research: combinatorial optimization with a focus on approximation algorithms; and probabilistic techniques for the design and analysis of algorithms. I also dabble with a variety of new directions: lift-and-project techniques to strengthen linear programs, algorithmic game theory, stochastic optimization, streaming algorithms.
Advising
Graduate applications: I regularly receive emails from students who might be interested in Brown. However, by university policy, I cannot look at resumes until receiving the application through the official channel.
Summer internships and postdocs: I am usually gone for much of the summer, and have no funding for postdocs. Sorry! Please consider this posting as a reply to all emails enquiring about that.
Current and former Phd Students