Miscellaneous Stuff

My Writing, Translation, and Other Miscellaneous Stuff

• I occasionally maintain a non-exhaustive bibliography related to Combinatorial Reconfiguration. You can download the BibTeX version of the list.
• [Bản nháp 2020-10-22] Lịch sử tóm tắt về NP-đầy đủ, 1954-2012, dịch bởi Hoàng Anh Đức, từ A Brief History of NP-Completeness, 1954–2012 của David S. Johnson. [PDF] [ZIP]
• Tôi tham gia dịch Sage tutorial (version 4.6.1) sang tiếng Việt năm 2012. Các tài liệu có tại Google Code Archive. [ZIP]
• Chế USB vừa cài Windows XP, vừa chạy Hiren’s Boot, Tạp chí Echip, số 438, ra ngày 30/06/2009 (thứ 3), trang 11. [PDF] (Các công cụ kèm theo bài viết: USB_MultiBoot_10.zip, menu.lst, Hiren’s Boot ISO.)
• Làm toán để tìm được công việc tốt, dịch bởi Hoàng Anh Đức và Nguyễn Hữu Thịnh, từ Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs của Sarah E. Needleman, bản dịch đăng trên Tạp chí Thông tin toán học, tập 13, số 1, trang 12-14, tháng 03/2009. [PDF]

Advice and Inspiration

• Writing Mathematical Papers—a Few Tips, by Jerzy Trzeciak.
• Ian Parberry’s advice on giving a presentation (also see his paper with Bob Spillman) and reviewing a paper.
• The Task of the Referee (Alan J. Smith).
• Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (Gian-Carlo Rota).
• Non-Technical Talks by David Patterson, U.C. Berkeley.
• You and Your Research (Richard Hamming, Transcript).
• Are you interested in theoretical computer science? (How not???) I have some advice for you (Michael Fellows).
• EATCS Fellows’ Advice to the Young Theoretical Computer Scientist. (Luca Aceto with contributions by: Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Yuri Gurevich, David Harel, Monika Henzinger, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Scott Smolka, Paul G. Spirakis, Wolfgang Thomas).
• A Few Lessons I’ve Learned (Erik D. Demaine).
• The Ph.D Experience (Mihir Bellare).
• Math Study Tips (Gary MacGillivray).

Useful Resources

• Open Problem Garden: Graph Theory.
• Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator.
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
• Mathematics Archives (University of Tennessee).
• Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity - ECCC.
• Computational Geometry Pages.
• The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository (A comprehensive collection of algorithm implementations for over seventy of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms).
• VisuAlgo (A comprehensive collection of algorithm animations from Steve Halim at the National University of Singapore).
• Encyclopedia of Graphs.
• Information System on Graph Classes and their Inclusions.
• Teach Yourself Computer Science.
• A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum.
• Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson.
• Introduction to Graph Theory, by Douglas B. West.
• Bulletin of EATCS.
• DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA Extra Volume: Optimization Stories (2012)
• MIT 6.080/6.089, Spring 2008, Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science.
• MIT 6.890, Fall 2014, Algorithmic Lower Bounds: Fun with Hardness Proofs.
• School on Parameterized Algorithms and Complexity (17-22 August 2014, Będlewo, Poland).
• Recent Advances in Parameterized Complexity (3-7 December 2017, ​Tel Aviv, Israel).
• Some interesting programs and video lectures from Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
  • Fine-Grained Complexity and Algorithm Design (August 19, 2015 - December 18, 2015).
  • Beyond Computation: The P versus NP question (Speaker: Michael Sipser, Time: May 9, 2014, Place: Berkeley City College).
• Beyond Computation: The P vs NP Problem. (Speaker: Michael Sipser, Time: October 3, 2006, Place: Harvard University Science Center).
• US Northeast Combinatorics Network.
• SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics.
• The Erdos Project – Collected Papers of Paul Erdõs.
• CSAuthors.
• Theoretical Computer Science Jobs.
• MathJobs.
• Mailing Lists: DMANET, THEORYNT, Reconf, Seminar CSTT (Vietnamese).
• Blog Khoa học máy tính.
• TCS+ Online Seminar.
• CGGC Online Seminar on Geometric Modeling, Geometry Processing, and Computational Geometry.
• Blog of David Eppstein.
• Technical Reports
  • CDAM: Computational, Discrete and Applicable Mathematics@LSE.
  • IPSJ SIG Technical Reports on ALgorithms. (The reports can be accessed freely after two years or more of being online.)
  • IEICE Technical Report. (You must buy a license to download the reports in this series.)
  • Technical Report Archive of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.
  • CMU Computer Science Technical Report Collection.
• E-prints
  • arXiv.
  • HAL.
  • Preprints.

Conferences and Journals

• SHERPA RoMEO – a summary of publisher copyright policies and self-archiving.
• Some open access journals (see also the Free Journal Network for more information).
  • Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science.
  • Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.
  • Journal of Computational Geometry.
  • Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications.
  • Theory of Computing.
  • Ars Mathematica Contemporanea.
  • Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.
  • Advances in Combinatorics.
  • Combinatorial Theory. (The successor to Elsevier’s Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A.)
• WikiCFP - A Wiki for Calls for Papers. (See algorithms and theoretical computer science categories.)
• Links to Combinatorial Conferences (maintained by Douglas B. West).
• Conferences in Theoretical Computer Science (maintained by Miki (Nicolas) Hermann).
• Conferences and Meetings on Graph Theory and Combinatorics.
• Acceptance ratio of some Theoretical Computer Science Conferences (maintained by Florian Sikora).
• Highlights of Algorithms.
• Combinatorial Reconfiguration (CoRe): 2019 (Aussois, France), 2017 (Banff, Canada), 2015 (Sendai, Japan).
• StackExchange List of TCS conferences and workshops.

TeX Resources

• Historic archive of TeX material.
• TeX Editors and Softwares
  • Overleaf, an online TeX editor.
  • VieTeX, Chương trình soạn thảo TeX tiếng Việt chạy trên nền Windows.
  • TeXstudio.
  • TeX Live, availble for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
  • LaTeX Cloud Compiler, build a PDF from GIT repository with TeX files.
  • Tools for Publishing LaTeX Documents on the Web (Julius Orion Smith III) – A really nice tutorial about how to generate HTML pages with LaTeX2HTML.
  • LaTeXML – A LaTeX to XML/HTML/MathML Converter.
  • bibtex2html – BibTeX to HTML Converter.
• Detexify (Draw a symbol to get its corresponding LaTeX command).
• LaTeX Color.
• Online tutorials on LaTeX (Indian TUG).
• LaTeX Wikibook.
• Beamer
  • Beamer User Guide.
  • Charles Batts Beamer Tutorial.
  • Beamer Theme Gallery.
• VisualTikZ.
• TikZ and PGF Resources.
• Vẽ hình khoa học TikZ - Asymptote.
• Templates
  • Japan IEICE LaTeX Style. (See also Cloud LaTeX, an online TeX editor with several Japanese templates.)
  • Some TeX templates I collected. The followings are available on Overleaf: VNU-HUS Beamer Template, A Simple Article Template, A Simple Vietnamese CV.
• LaTeX Notes for Professionals.

Travel

• Google Maps (anywhere on earth), Rome2rio (Europe), GoThere.sg (Singapore).
• Cheap Flights and Hotels: Skyscanner, Wego Travel, Google Travel.
• Prepaid Data SIM Card Wiki.
• Visa requirements for Vietnamese citizens.

Vietnam

• VNU University of Science.
• National Foundation for Science & Technology Development - NAFOSTED.
• Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics - VIASM.
• Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
• Association for Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing.
• Tạp chí Tia Sáng.
• Tạp chí Pi, Tạp chí Epsilon.
• MathVN.
• Việt Nam thư quán (free Vietnamese ebooks).
• TimoPlus Bank (powered by Viet Capital Bank, previously called Timo Bank).
• Foody - Find good restaurants in Vietnam.
• Tìm Buýt - Find bus routes in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Japan

• Sổ tay ngôn ngữ du lịch Nhật Bản.
• Sổ tay y tế phát hành bởi Hiệp hội giao lưu quốc tế tỉnh Ibaraki.
• Travel Agency: GT center, Art Tourist.
• Route Finding: HyperDia, Yahoo!乗換案内, Japan Transit Planner.
• Cheap Hotels: Rakuten Travel.
• Tabelog - Find good restaurants in Japan.
• LIFE in JAPAN For Foreign Researchers.
• Student Guide to Japan.
• JSPS e-Learning Course on Research Ethics.
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) Database.
• Facebook Vietnamese at JAIST.
• Một số bài viết và slides của thầy Hồ Tú Bảo.
• Blog Tran Phuong Thao.
• The webpage and Facebook page of JAIST’s Uehara Lab. (I was a graduate student there from April 2013 to June 2018 under the supervision of Professor Ryuhei Uehara). You can also see my personal webpage at JAIST (which may have been deleted by the staffs in JAIST RCACI). There is also a page containing materials for Seminars in Uehara Lab (since April 2018), which is probably moved to here (since 2020?). [For lab members only; username and password are required]
• JAIST’s LaTeX template, Documents related to Major Research Project, Useful Links [On-Campus Use Only], Employment Opportunities.
• JAIST Research Center for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (RCACI).
  • How to publish your own personal website at JAIST.
• Facebook JAIST Recycling and Exchange Group.
• Information for Foreign Residents at Iizuka-city (Fukuoka, Japan).
• Tỉnh Fukuoka.
• Nishitetsu Bus Timetable Search - Find bus routes in Fukuoka. (Nishitetsu (Nishi-Nippon Railroad) is a major bus company operating in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.)
• Kyutech Algorithms Group.
• For Users of Kyutech Information Systems.
• 情報処理学会アルゴリズム研究会（IPSJ Special Interest Group on Algorithms - SIGAL, Japan).
• コンピュテーション研究会（IEICE Computation Research Group - COMP, Japan).
• EATCS Japan Chapter.
• Japan REsearch Career Information Network (JREC-IN).
• Japanese Center for Combinatorics and its Applications (JCCA).
• Japan Post Bank.
  • Mijica Visa Debit Card. [Suspended since 2020-10-03]
  • Yucho Direct.
• Seven Bank (Vietnamese support, like here or here).

Other Stuff

• Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Dillinger - Online Markdown Editor.
• Markdown to Wikidot Converter.
• Internet Archive.
• Free eBooks - Project Gutenberg.
• Planet Ebook.
• Adguard.net Techbench Windows ISO Download. (One can verify the downloaded ISOs’ SHA1SUM with MSDN Files Info by WZT.)
• Windows 10 Tutorial.
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux - Add desktop experience to Ubuntu.
  • Create Windows 10 ISO image from Existing Installation.
  • How to create a custom bootable recovery partition to restore Windows.
• The Ipe extensible drawing editor.
• ArchWiki.
• The Linux Documentation Project.
• GNU Make Manual.
• Bash tips: Colors and formatting (ANSI/VT100 Control sequences).
• Create temporary email and SMS.
• arXiv identifier scheme.
• ’;–have i been pwned? - Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach.
• Ventoy - Boot Multiple ISOs in one USB.
• hack.chat - a minimal, distraction-free chat application with LaTeX support.

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