Combinatorics Seminar

Spring 2009 -- Wednesdays at 1 pm

Lippitt Hall    Room L204


         Announcements


         Spring 2009
  February 4        N. Eaton     Reporting on: On List-Coloring Outerplanar Graphs by J. Hutchinson
  February 11        A. Gilbert     Reporting on: Game Chromatic Number of Cartesian Product Graphs by T. Bartnicki et al
  February 18            no seminar -- Monday schedule
  February 25        M. Heissan     Reporting on: A note on the strong chromatic index of bipartite graphs by K. Nakprasit
  March 4        Z. Kudlak     Reporting on: A Note on Odd Cycle-Complete Graph Ramsey Numbers by B. Sudakov
  March 11        P. Thompson     Reporting on: Bounds on eigenvalues and chromatic numbers by D. Cao
  March 18            Spring break
  March 25        Z. Kudlak    
  April 8       V. Sahakian     Reporting on: Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon by J. Hutchinson
  April 13 (Monday)        O. Hussein     Decomposition of complete graphs into cycles
  April 15        J. Jones     Reporting on: Plane graphs without cycles of length 4,6,7 or 8 are 3-colorable by Y. Wang et al
  April 24 (Friday)        A. Gilbert     Reporting on: The chromatic polynomial and list colorings by C. Thomassen   (M.S. presentation)
  April 29        P. Thompson    


         Fall 2008
  October 22        Zak Kudlak     On edge colorings of complete graphs
  November 26        Lubos Thoma     On Ramsey graphs
  December 3        Nancy Eaton     Defective colorings
  December 10        A. Mia Heissan     Reporting on: 'On a theorem of Erdos, Rubin, and Taylor on choosability of complete bipartite graphs' by Alexandr Kostochka