Dates: Oct 26-27, 2019

Featured speaker:   Ron Gould

Graphic, showing a K_3,3 in two silhouetted faces

The 7th 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
Bernd Schroederbernd.schroederVertex@usm.eduUniversity of Southern Mississippi
Laura SheppardsonsheppardVertex@olemiss.eduUniversity of Mississippi
Vaidy SivaramanvsivaramanVertex@math.msstate.eduMississippi State University
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 107 and 101 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 SchroederslidesThe automorphism conjecture for ordered sets
11:10 - 11:35Tiansi LislidesCL-shellable posets with no EL-shellings
11:40 - 11:50Break
11:50 - 12:15Andrei PavelescuslidesTopological properties of maximal linklessly embeddable graphs
12:20 - 12:45Dong YeslidesCycle traversability and 4-vertex linkage for graphs on surfaces
12:50 - 14:00Lunch (we'll order in food)
14:00 - 15:00Ron Gould (Keynote)slidesThe changing face of graph saturation
15:05 - 15:15Break
15:15 - 15:40Sarah AllredslidesUnavoidable induced subgraphs of large 2-connected graphs
15:45 - 16:10Vaidy SivaramanslidesChi-boundedness: a tale of two invariants
16:15 - 16:25Break
16:30 - 16:55Neal BushawslidesVariations on a theme of Turán
17:00 - 17:25Josephine ReynesslidesThe integer matrix all-minors matrix-tree theorem via oriented hypergraphs
17:30 - 17:55Jianbing LiuslidesOn weighted modulo orientations of graphs
18:30 - wheneverDinner / conference party at Laura Sheppardson's house
 
Sunday
9:00 - 9:25Tara FifeslidesMatroids with a cyclic arrangement of circuits and cocircuits
9:30 - 9:55Jagdeep SinghslidesComplementation, switching and local complementation in binary matroids
10:00 - 10:10Break
10:10 - 10:35Zhenchao GeslidesEssential components in vector spaces over finite fields
10:40 - 11:05Thái Hoàng LêslidesAdditive bases in groups
11:10 - 11:20Break
11:20 - 11:45Semin YooslidesThe dot-binomial coefficients
11:50 - 12:15Rachel BarberslidesRecognizing when bicoset graphs are X-joins.
12:20 - 12:45Xiaofeng GuslidesToughness in pseudo-random graphs
12:50 - wheneverThose interested will caravan over to the Square for lunch (at own cost)

Pictures:

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Group picture!
Group picture!
Getting ready for Ron Gould's talk
Getting ready for Ron Gould's talk
Ron Gould on saturated graphs
Ron Gould on saturated graphs
Sivaraman discusses open problems
Sivaraman discusses open problems
Bushaw at the board
Bushaw at the board
Liu orients himself
Liu orients himself
Sunday morning coming down
Sunday morning coming down
Singh gets into his slides
Singh gets into his slides
Barber sketches an example
Barber sketches an example
Between talks
Between talks
Mississippi mathematicians
Mississippi mathematicians

Last modified December 09, 2019