MTH 548   Topics in Combinatorics:   Graph Theory

Spring 2002

Instructor: Lubos Thoma
Office: Tyler Hall 214
Email: thoma@math.uri.edu
Tel: 874.4451
Class schedule: TR 3.00 - 4.15pm, Tyler Hall 216
Office hours: TR 2.00 - 3.00pm and by appointment



Homework:
      homework set 1:   postscript
      homework set 2:   postscript
      homework set 3:   postscript
      homework set 4:   postscript




Syllabus:   postscript

Description:   The purpose of the course is to present the basic concepts and techniques of graph theory as well as some of their applications Topics, to include: fundamentals, connectivity, matchings, colorings, extremal problems, ramsey theory, algebraic techniques.

Reference book:     B. Bollobas, Modern graph theory, Grad. Texts in Math. 73, Springer Verlag (0-387-90518-9).

Additional texts:
      R. Diestel, Graph Theory, Grad. Texts in Math. 73, Springer Verlag 1997.
      N. Alon, J. Spencer, The probabilistic method, Willey 2001.
      D. West, Introduction ot graph theory, Prentice Hall 1996.