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	<title>Glencora Borradaile</title>
	<link>http://www.glencora.org</link>
	<description>Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University</description>
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		<title>SODA 2012 to be in Kyoto, Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I missed the business meeting to have dinner with a non-SODA-attending friend and so missed the voting over the location of SODA 2012 which was apparently a close tie.
I&#8217;m a little dismayed at SODA being outside of North America.  As a graduate student I would have probably been excited in my responsibility-free state.  But now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/soda-2012-to-be-in-kyoto-japan/</link>
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		<title>SODA 20 minute talks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people have been blogging on the technical content at SODA, but I won&#8217;t. Given that David has already hinted that I only value the first 10 minutes of most talks, clearly I&#8217;m not in the position to expound on the more than the definition of problems and all but the highest level of analysis.
I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/soda-20-minute-talks/</link>
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		<title>Warm and fuzzy and orange all over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
As seen at the Women&#8217;s Center on campus at Oregon State University (in the spirit of &#8230; is powered by Orange).
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		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/warm-and-fuzzy-and-orange-all-over/</link>
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		<title>Donation price of anarchy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently went to a Christmas party where, instead of a gift exchange, there was a donation exchange.  Essentially, we each placed a cause&#8217;s name into a hat, people draw the names and are asked to donate to the cause.  You may donate any amount you wish (including nothing if you are particularly opposed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/donation-price-of-anarchy/</link>
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		<title>nth Combinatorial Potlatch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Combinatorial Potlatch is a semi-regular (which for last 7 years has been yearly!) one-day workshop in combinatorics held in Cascadia.  It is very informal (no name tags!), very relaxed (only three talks!) and runs on next to no funding*.  The latest installment was this past weekend in Vancouver, BC, held at Simon Fraser University&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/nth-semi-regular-combinatorial-potlatch/</link>
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		<title>Postdoc after postdoc after postdoc?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s talk of postdocking* in the air &#8211; for one, Jonathan Katz posted about how to better match recent grads to postdoc positions. It looks like this year&#8217;s academic-job market is even worse than last and that postdocs might just fill in the gap for a year or two for some people &#8211; including those that are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/postdoc-after-postdoc-after-postdoc/</link>
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		<title>Mathworld v. Wikipedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was a mathematics undergraduate in the MathWorld generation.  It spread like wildfire in our department.  I stopped carrying textbooks around with me &#8211; instead I could just walk into our undergraduate lab and look something up.  MathWorld was every math textbook I needed.  (A friend of mine was blocked from MathWorld after trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/mathworld-v-wikipedia/</link>
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		<title>Algorithms for graph-constrained knapsack problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Versions of this talk have been given at Oregon State University and the Combinatorial Potlatch.

Joint work with Brent Heeringa (Williams College) and Gordon Wilfong (Bell Labs)
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		<link>http://www.glencora.org/talks/how-to-plan-a-party-algorithms-for-graph-constrained-knapsack-problems/</link>
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		<title>Princesses can be mathematicians too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[greets three tiny trick-or-treaters]
Them: Trick or treat!
Me: I see we have a puppy, Mickey Mouse and, well, you must be a mathematician!
Little girl [defiantly stomping foot]: I&#8217;m a princess!
Me: Princesses can be mathematicians too.
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		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/princesses-can-be-mathematicians-too/</link>
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		<title>Job talks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently found out that when I gave my job talk at Oregon State University last year, I was being recorded.  I was hesitant to post it, but I hope that, despite this far-from-perfect performance, it might be useful to those on the job market this year.  Note that Oregon State is not a theory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.glencora.org/silent-glen-speaks/job-talks/</link>
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