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

Past VCU Discrete Math Seminars: Spring 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