3rd annual Mississippi Discrete Mathematics Workshop

Dates: Nov 15 - 16, 2014

Featured speaker: Paul Balister

Organizers:

Ted Dobson	dobson .at. math , msstate , edu	Mississippi State University
Klavdija Kutnar	klavdija.kutnar .at. upr , si	University of Primorska
Dragan Marušič	dragan.marusic .at. upr , si	University of Primorska
Laura Sheppardson	sheppard .at. olemiss , edu	University of Mississippi
Russ Woodroofe	rwoodroofe .at. math , msstate , edu	Mississippi State University

With partial support from:
     Mississippi State University; and University of Primorska through the ARRS research agency of Slovenia.

Location:
     All talks were held in Allen Hall room 21, on the Mississippi State Campus. (see on Google Maps)

Local information: linked here.

Participants and abstracts: linked here.

Slides: are linked below, as available.

Pictures!

Group photos:
	Waiting for Sandi	Everyone is there
Talks:
	Paul Balister ("here's the problem")		Paul Balister ("the end")
	Anna Bachstein	Bernd Schroeder	Shaohui Wang	Erik Westlund
	Eric Gottlieb	Rupei Xu	Stacy McAdams
Other pictures:
	Setting up	Between talks

Schedule and speakers:
   Most talks are 25 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions and setup between talks.
   Our room will have an excellent blackboard; projection equipment will also be available.

   To see abstracts, click on the title of a talk.

Saturday
10:40 - 11:05	Paul Fabel	-	Applications of trees and diamond free semilattices in geometry and topology
11:10 - 11:35	Anna Bachstein	slides	Decomposition of cubic graphs on the torus and Klein-bottle
11:40 - 11:50	Break
11:50 - 12:15	Bernd Schroeder	slides	Using Algebraic Topology to prove performance guarantees for a constraint satisfaction algorithm?
12:20 - 12:45	Drew Lewis	slides	A combinatorial approach to some questions from affine algebraic geometry
12:50 - 14:00	lunch   (we'll order in food)
14:00 - 15:00	Paul Balister	slides	Minimal symmetric differences of lines in projective planes (keynote)
15:05 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 15:40	Shaohui Wang	slides	Padmakar-Ivan index of k-trees
15:45 - 16:10	Erik Westlund	slides	Decomposing Cayley digraphs into isomorphic directed trees
16:15 - 16:25	Break
16:25 - 16:50	Rok Požar	slides	Solvable regular covering projections of graphs
16:55 - 17:20	Eric Gottlieb	slides	An Erdős-Szekeres result for set partitions
18:00 - whenever	Dinner/party at Ted Dobson's house
Sunday
9:30 - 9:55	Hehui Wu	slides	Fractional chromatic number and dichromatic number
10:00 - 10:25	Jinko Kanno	slides	Towards a solution to the Seymour Conjecture
10:30 - 10:40	Break
10:40 - 11:05	Jeremy Lyle		Binding number, cliques, and independent sets
11:10 - 11:35	Rupei Xu	slides (PowerPoint)	The minimum connectivity of graphs with a given degree sequence
11:40 - 11:50	Break
11:50 - 12:15	Stacy McAdams	slides	Deer: Minimal forbidden subgraphs

     Please email Russ Woodroofe to register for the conference.
     Click here to see who has already registered.

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