Combinatorics Seminar

Spring 2011 -- Wednesdays at 1 pm

Lippitt Hall    Room L204


         Announcements


         Spring 2011
  February 23, March 2            Partition function
  March 9        K. Rudasill     On the h-vector of coned graphs
  March 23            Spring break
  March 30        C. Phifer     Reporting on: Combinatorial Green's Function of a Graph and Applications to Networks by W. Kook (M.S. presentation)
  April 6            Departmental meeting
  April 13            Students projects
  April 20            Students projects
  April 27        D. Smith     (M.S. presentation)
  May 4            Students projects


         Fall 2010
  September 15            Organizational meeting
  September 22            No seminar (departmental lunch)
  September 29        A. Gilbert     An introduction to graph representations
  October 6        A. M. Heissan     An introduction to graph representations (cont'd)
  October 13        A. Gilbert     An introduction to graph representations (cont'd)
  October 20        N. Eaton     Set and tree representations
  October 27        F. Palladino     Improvements to the Spectrum of Known Z-Cyclic Whist Tournament Designs
  Abstract: A new tool for the construction of Z-cyclic designs is introduced and several
new Z-cyclic whist designs are constructed using this tool.
  November 10            No seminar (Thursday schedule at URI)
  November 17        D. Smith     On packing complete bipartite graphs
  December 8        M. Krul     On the Alon-Tarsi polynomial method