Seth Pettie

2260 Hayward St.
Department of EECS
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Office: CSE Building Room 3628
Phone: (734) 615-4210
Fax: (734) 763-1260



Curriculum Vitae: PDF

Teaching:
Fall 2007: EECS 203 - Discrete Mathematics
Winter 2007: EECS 477 - Introduction to Algorithms
Fall 2006: EECS 598 - Advanced Data Structures


I'm organizing the department Theory Seminar. Please email me if you'd like to get announcements about upcoming talks.



Professional Service:
Editorial Board, The Encyclopedia of Algorithms
PC 25th Int'l Symposiums on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2008)
PC 10th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2008)
PC 15th European Symposium on Algorithms (part of ALGO 2007)
PC 18th Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2007)
PC 32nd Int'l Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2005)
PC 7th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2005)



Journal Articles

Randomized Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms Using Exponentially Fewer Random Bits (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
ACM Transactions on Algorithms 4(1):1--27, 2008..
PDF, BibTex

A Shortest Path Algorithm for Real-Weighted Undirected Graphs (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
SIAM J. Comput. 34(6):1398--1431, 2005.
Journal Version: Link to article, PDF, BibTeX

An Inverse-Ackermann Type Lower Bound for Online Minimum Spanning Tree Verification
Combinatorica 26(2):207--230, 2006.
Journal Submission: PostScript, PDF, BibTex

A Simpler Linear Time 2/3 - &epsilon Approximation for Maximum Weight Matching (with Peter Sanders)
Information Processing Letters 91(6):271--276.
Journal Version: PostScript, PDF, BibTex

A New Approach to All-Pairs Shortest Paths on Real-Weighted Graphs
Theoretical Computer Science, special issue on papers from ICALP 2002, 312(1), pp. 47--74.
Link to article, PostScript, PDF, BibTex

An Optimal Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 49(1), pp. 16--34
Link to article, PostScript, PDF, BibTex

A Randomized Time-Work Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Finding a Minimum Spanning Forest. (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
SIAM Journal on Computing 31(6), pp. 1879--1895.
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Manuscripts / In Submission

Sources of Superlinearity in Davenport-Schinzel Sequences
arXiv:0707.1715
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Additive Spanners and (&alpha,&beta)-Spanners (with S. Baswana, T. Kavitha, and K. Mehlhorn)
Full version: PDF



Conference Papers

Distributed Algorithms for Ultrasparse Spanners and Linear Size Skeletons
PODC 2008
Journal Submission: PDF, BibTex

Improved Distributed Approximate Matching (with Zvi Lotker and Boaz Patt-Shamir)
SPAA 2008
Conference version: PDF, BibTex

Splay Trees, Davenport-Schinzel Sequences, and the Deque Conjecture
SODA 2008
Preliminary Draft: PDF, BibTex

Bounded-leg Distance and Reachability Oracles (with Ran Duan)
SODA 2008
Preliminary Draft: PDF, BibTex

Low Distortion Spanners
ICALP 2007
Conference version: PDF BibTex

Sensitivity Analysis of Minimum Spanning Trees in Sub-Inverse-Ackermann Time
ISAAC 2005
Conference submission: Postscript, BibTex

Towards a Final Analysis of Pairing Heaps
FOCS 2005
Conference version: PDF, BibTex

The Complexity of Implicit and Space-Efficient Priority Queues (with Christian Mortensen)
WADS 2005
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New Constructions of (&alpha,&beta)-Spanners and Purely Additive Spanners (with S. Baswana, T. Kavitha, and K. Mehlhorn)
Proceedings 16th Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2005)
[see journal submission]

On the Comparison-Addition Complexity of All-pairs Shortest Paths
13th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2002).
Conference Paper: PostScript, PDF, BibTex
(See my Ph.D. thesis for the best exposition of this result.)

An Inverse-Ackermann Style Lower Bound for the Online Minimum Spanning Tree Verification Problem
43rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2002)
[see journal version]

A Faster All-Pairs Shortest Path Algorithm for Real-Weighted Sparse Graphs
Proceedings 29th Int'l Colloq. on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2002).
Received Best Student Paper Award
[see journal version]

The Dynamic Vertex Minimum Problem and its Application to Clustering-type Approximation Algorithms (with Harold Gabow)
Proceedings 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2002).
Link to paper, PostScript, PDF, BibTex
[See Technical Report]

Experimental Evaluation of a New Shortest Path Algorithm (with Vijaya Ramachandran and Srinath Sridhar)
Proceedings 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 2002),
Link to paper, PostScript, PDF, BibTex

Minimizing Randomness in Minimum Spanning Tree, Parallel Connectivity, and Set Maxima Algorithms (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
Proceedings 13th Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2002)
[see journal version]

Computing Shortest Paths with Comparisons and Additions (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
Proceedings 13th Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2002)
[see journal version]

An Optimal Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
Proceedings 27th Int'l Colloq. on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2000)
Received Best Paper Award
[see journal version]

A Randomized Time-Work Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Finding a Minimum Spanning Forest. (with Vijaya Ramachandran)
Proceedings 3rd Int'l Workshop on Randomization and Approximation in Computer Science RANDOM 1999
[see journal version]



Ph.D. Thesis

On the Shortest Path and Minimum Spanning Tree Problems
PDF, BibTex
Received The Outstanding Dissertation Award from The University of Texas Graduate School, 2004.



Technical Reports

The Dynamic Vertex Minimum Problem and its Application to Clustering-type Approximation Algorithms (with Harold Gabow)
Technical Report: PostScript, PDF, BibTex

Finding Minimum Spanning Trees in O(m &alpha(m,n)) Time
Technical Report: PostScript, PDF, BibTex