VCU Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Fall 2025

All Seminars Will Be Broadcast on Zoom
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[Direct Link to This Week's Seminar]
Date
Time
Speaker
Title (Click for abstract if available)
Wed., Aug. 20 1:00p-1:50 Maya Tennant (VCU) Graph Pebbling on the Hypercube
Wed., Sept. 17 1:00p-1:50 Sarah Loeb (Hampden-Sydney College) Tanglegram Reconstruction
Wed., Sept. 24 1:00p-1:50 Jonathan Gerhard (VCU) An Introduction to the Critical Group of a Graph
Wed., Oct. 1 1:00p-1:50 Sarah Loeb (Hampden-Sydney College) Breaking Symmetries of Mycielskian Graphs and of Cubes
Wed., Oct. 8 1:00p-1:50 Shahriar Shahriari (Pomona College) Avoidance among Subspaces
Wed., Oct. 15 1:00p-1:50 Shahriar Shahriari (Pomona College) Chain Partitions of Normalized Matching Posets
Wed., Oct. 22 1:00p-1:50 Neal Bushaw (VCU) Bootstrap Percolation on Grids and Tori
Wed., Nov. 5 1:00p-1:50 Gregory Robson (University of Primorska, and VCU Alum!) The BCI Problem
Wed., Nov. 12 1:00p-1:50 Suvrajeet Sen (University of Southern California) On the symbiosis between Machine Learning and Optimization
Wed., Nov. 19 1:00p-1:50 Paul Fay (VCU) TBA
Wed., Dec. 3 1:00p-1:50 Brent Cody (VCU) TBA

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Past VCU Discrete Math Seminars: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012,
Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008