VCU Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Spring 2015

 
Date
Time
Room
Speaker (click on title for abstract)
Tues. Jan. 27 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Dan Cranston, VCU
Planar Graphs are 9/2 colorable and have
independence ratio at least 3/13
Tues. Feb. 3 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Jose Dula, VCU (School of Business)
An Introduction to Frames
Tues. Feb. 10 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Vince Lyzinski, Johns Hopkins
Spectral Clustering for Divide-and-Conquer Graph Matching
Tues. Feb. 17 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Jim Lawrence, George Mason
The Odd-even invariant of oriented matroids:
Hyperplane arrangements and graphs
Snow!
Tues. Feb. 24 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Marco Aldi, VCU
Arithmetical Semirings
Tues. Mar. 3 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Geir Agnarsson, George Mason
A Unifying Approach to Generating Functions
Tues. Mar. 10
12:30-1:20
Harris 4145
Spring Break
Thur. Mar. 19 (special day) 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Doug Klein, Texas A&M, Galveston
Intrinsic Graph Metrics
Tues. Mar. 24 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Cun-Quan Zhang, West Virginia
Nowhere-zero 3-Flows in Graphs and Signed Graphs
Tues. Mar. 31 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Sevag Gharibian, VCU (Computer Science)
Thur. Apr. 9 (special day) 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Marthe Bonamy, University Montpellier 2
Graph Recoloring
Tues. Apr. 14 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Bobby Jaeger, VCU
Coloring Squares of Planar Graphs with no 4-cycles and no 5-cycles
Tues. Apr. 21 12:30-1:20 Harris 4145 Jim Lawrence, George Mason
The Odd-even invariant of oriented matroids:
Hyperplane arrangements and graphs

Past VCU Discrete Math Seminars: Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008