AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 19, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, I
Room 243, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The spectral radius of graphs on surfaces.
  Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  (941-05-141)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Genus bounds for embeddings with large connectivity and large representativity.
  Michael Plummer, Vanderbilt University
  Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
  (941-05-168)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On some extensions of bar-visibility graphs.
  Joan P. Hutchinson*, Macalester College
  (941-05-44)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Recent Research on Digraph Minors.
  Neil Robertson*, The Ohio state University
  (941-05-271)

Friday March 19, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, II
Room 243, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Two-Factors with exactly two cycles in Hamiltonian Graphs.
  Michael S Jacobson*, University of Louisville
  Ralph J Faudree, University of memphis
  Ronald J Gould, Emory University
  Linda Lesniak, Drew University
  Akira Saito, Nihon University
  (941-05-126)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Two-Factors Containing Specified Edges.
  Ralph Faudree*, University of Memphis
  Ervin Gy|H{o}ri, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  Richard Schelp, University of Memphis
  (941-05-71)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Graph Connectivity After Path Removal.
  Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
  Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
  Xingxing Yu, Georgia Tech
  (941-05-70)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The computation of, and relationships among, graph invariants involving orientations (preliminary report).
  Luis A Goddyn*, Simon Fraser University
  (941-05-241)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Dependent Arcs in Acyclic Orientations and Cover Graphs.
  Vojtech Rodl, Emory University
  Lubos Thoma*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (941-05-239)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Nice graphs and their generalizations.
  Alexandr V. Kostochka*, Institute of Mathematics of the Russian AS and the University of Memphis
  (941-05-170)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
Room 243, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A distance property of $2m$ points.
  Andre E Kezdy*, University of Louisville
  Mark J. Nielsen, University of Idaho
  Hunter S. Snevily, University of Idaho
  (941-05-226)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Strengthening Distance-Hereditary Graphs.
  Terry A. McKee*, Wright State University
  (941-05-10)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalizing the Ramsey Problem through Diameter.
  Dhruv Mubayi*, Georgia Tech
  (941-05-125)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Edge-Maximal Triangle-Free Point-Determining Graphs.
  Richard H. Schelp*, University of Memphis
  Alex Scott, University College London
  (941-05-105)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
Room 243, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Game Coloring Number .
  H. A. Kierstead*, Arizona State University
  (941-05-262)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dimension, Graph and Hypergraph Coloring.
  William T. Trotter*, Arizona State University
  Stefan Felsner, Freie Universit\"{a}t Berlin
  (941-05-212)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Testing Bipartiteness Efficiently.
  Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
  Michael Krivelevich*, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University
  (941-05-185)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the power of LBFS.
  Derek G Corneil*, University of Toronto
  (941-05-103)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Improved Algorithms for Weakly Triangulated Graphs.
  Ryan B Hayward, University of Lethbridge
  R Sritharan, Indiana State University
  Jeremy P. Spinrad*, Vanderbilt University
  (941-05-132)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Low Dilation embeddings of grids into hypercubes.
  Zevi Miller*, Miami University
  Dan Pritikin, Miami
  (941-05-318)

Sunday March 21, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, V
Room 243, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana west@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Independent sets and spanning trees with many leaves.
  Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
  (941-05-159)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Two simultaneous coloring problems.
  Yue Y Zhao*, Benedict College
  (941-05-86)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generalized list coloring of planar and outerplanar graphs.
  Glenn G. Chappell*, Southeast Missouri State University
  (941-05-286)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The sub-chromatic number of a graph.
  Chris M Hartman*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  (941-05-187)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Collision and Percolation.
  Peter Winkler*, Lucent Technologies
  (941-05-46)

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