VCU Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Fall 2009

  Date Time Room Speaker (click on title for abstract)
Thur. Sept. 3 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Laura McLay (VCU)
Knapsack Problem Variations and Homeland Security:
Theory and Application
Thur. Sept. 10 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 (no talk)
Thur. Sept. 17 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 (no talk)
Thur. Sept. 24 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Dan Cranston (VCU)
A New Lower Bound on the Density of Vertex Identifying Codes for the Infinite Hexagonal Grid
Thur. Oct. 1 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Monte Kier (VCU)
Cellular Automata Models of Complex Biochemical Systems
Thur. Oct. 8 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Sivaram Narayan (Central Michigan)
Finding the minimum semi-definite rank of a graph
Thur. Oct. 15 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Reading Day
Thur. Oct. 22 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Jason Merrick (VCU)
Modeling Oil Spills
Thur. Oct. 29 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Paul Brooks (VCU)
Ryser's Conjecture and Special Cases
Thur. Nov. 5 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Lon Mitchell (VCU)
A tasty talk: the Sandwich Theorem
Thur. Nov. 12 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Danail Bonchev (VCU)
Some Graph Invariants of Use in Mathematical Chemistry
Thur. Nov. 19 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Craig Larson (VCU)
Teaching with GrInvIn
Thur. Nov. 26 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Thanksgiving Day
Thur. Dec. 3 12:30–1:30 Harris 4119 Robert Rubalcaba (DOD)
Vizing's conjecture: 4 decades later