Dates: Nov 10-11, 2018

Featured speaker:   John Shareshian

Graphic, representing a term in the chromatic symmetric function for C_5

The 6th annual Mississippi Discrete Math Workshop concluded successfully. Information about the latest workshop is available here.

The schedule and slides from the weekend are available, as are pictures.

Organizers:

Ted Dobsonted.dobsonVertex@upr.siUniversity of Primorska
Klavdija Kutnarklavdija.kutnarVertex@upr.siUniversity of Primorska
Dragan Marušičdragan.marusicVertex@upr.siUniversity of Primorska
Bernd Schroederbernd.schroederVertex@usm.eduUniversity of Southern Mississippi
Laura SheppardsonsheppardVertex@olemiss.eduUniversity of Mississippi
Russ Woodrooferuss.woodroofeVertex@famnit.upr.siUniversity of Primorska

With partial support from:

the University of Mississippi College of Liberal Arts and the University of Mississippi Department of Mathematics. Additional support from the University of Primorska.

Travel funding:

We had some limited funding for travel, which has been disbursed. (Contact Laura Sheppardson if you applied for funding and have not heard back.)

Location:

All talks are to be held in 210 107 Hume Hall, on the campus of the University of Mississippi, in Oxford MS.
See location on Google Maps.

No parking permit is required on the weekend, and the nearby lots should have plenty of spaces.
Child or other family care can be arranged. Please contact Laura Sheppardson if you would like assistance.

Local information:
linked here.

Participants and abstracts:
linked here.

Schedule:
(printable version also available)

Saturday
10:40 - 11:05Bernd SchroederslidesSet recognition of decomposable graphs
11:10 - 11:35Rachel BarberslidesWhen Cayley graphs are wreath products
11:40 - 11:50Break
11:50 - 12:15Ted DobsonslidesOn automorphisms of Haar graphs of abelian groups
12:20 - 12:45Tara FifeslidesExploring unbreakable frame matroids
12:50 - 14:00Lunch (we'll order in food)
14:00 - 15:00John Shareshian (Keynote)Chromatic (quasi)symmetric functions
15:05 - 15:15Break
15:15 - 15:40Yifei LislidesA q-analogue and a symmetric function analogue of a result by Carlitz, Scoville and Vaughan
15:45 - 16:10Sheng BauslidesDimensions of metric spaces
16:15 - 16:25Break
16:25 - 16:50Peter JohnsonslidesSingle-distance graphs on the rational points in real Euclidean space
18:00 - wheneverDinner / conference party at Laura Sheppardson's house
 
Sunday
10:00 - 10:25Zhenchao GeslidesSubspaces in difference sets in vector spaces
10:30 - 10:55Thái Hoàng LêslidesA bilinear Bogolyubov theorem, with applications
11:00 - 11:10Break
11:10 - 11:35David GrynkiewiczslidesImproving Olson's Generalization of the Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv Theorem

Pictures:

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Group picture!
Group picture!
Shareshian asks whether symmetric functions determine trees
Shareshian asks whether symmetric functions determine trees
2:29pm
2:29pm
Li discusses further questions
Li discusses further questions
Johnson closes out Saturday
Johnson closes out Saturday
In deep thought
In deep thought
Listening to the talks
Listening to the talks
Ge lays out goals
Ge lays out goals
Hoàng states the Möbius randomness principle
Hoàng states the Möbius randomness principle
The audience after a weekend of great talks
The audience after a weekend of great talks

Last modified November 25, 2018