VCU Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Fall 2017

 
Date
Time
Room
Speaker (click on title for abstract)
Wed. Sep. 6 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Dan Cranston, VCU
Edge-coloring Multigraphs
Wed. Sep. 13 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Neal Bushaw, VCU
Turán Numbers and their Variants
Wed. Sep. 20 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Glenn Hurlbert, VCU
Injective Proofs of the Erdos-Ko-Rado and Hilton-Milnor Theorems
Wed. Sep. 27 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Richard Hammack, VCU
What makes a diagram commute?
Wed. Oct. 4 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Axel Brandt, Davidson
Flag Algebras: A Graph Theory/Computational Optimization Translator
Wed. Oct. 11 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Jonad Pulaj, Zuse Institute (Berlin, Germany)
Minimum Majority 3-sets in Union-Closed Families
Wed. Oct. 18
1:00-2:00
Harris 4145
Fall Break
Thu. Oct. 26 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Mike Tait, Carnegie Mellon
7 theorems in extremal spectral graph theory
Wed. Nov. 1 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Greg Smith, William & Mary
Wang algebra and spanning trees of receptor dimer models
Wed. Nov. 8 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Gexin Yu, William & Mary
Maximum average degree and relaxed coloring
Fri. Nov. 17 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Andrzej Czygrinow, Arizona State U
Spanning cycles and 2-factors in hypergraphs
Wed. Nov. 22
1:00-2:00
Harris 4145
Thanksgiving Break
Fri. Dec. 1 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Joel Brewster Lewis, George Washington U
Rook theory of the finite general linear group
Wed. Dec. 6 1:00-2:00 Harris 4145 Graph Pebbling Group, VCU
Three Open Problems in Graph Pebbling