AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 8, 2002, 2:10 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, I
Room 205, Instructional Center
Organizers:
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@marais.math.lsu.edu
Bogdan Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology thomas@math.gatech.edu
- 2:10 p.m.
  Hamilton paths in toroidal graphs.
  Robin Thomas, Georgia Tech
  Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Tech
  Wenan Zang, University of Hong Kong
  (975-05-255)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Spanning 2-trails from degree sum conditions.
  Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  Yi Zhang, Tillinghast--Towers Perrin
  (975-05-320)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Connected Spanning Subgraph in Surface.
  Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi*, Vanderbilt University
  (975-05-313)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Various Chromatic Numbers of an Oriented Matroid.
  Laura Chavez-Lomeli, Simon Fraser University
  Luis A Goddyn*, Simon Fraser University
  (975-05-414)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Potts Models, Chromatic Polynomials, and All That.
  Alan D. Sokal*, New York University
  (975-05-152)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Electrical network theory generalized to matroids.
  David G. Wagner*, University of Waterloo
  (975-05-321)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Tutte Polynomials of Generalized Parallel Connections.
  Joseph E Bonin*, The George Washington University
  Anna de Mier, Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya
  (975-05-23)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, II
Room 205, Instructional Center
Organizers:
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@marais.math.lsu.edu
Bogdan Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology thomas@math.gatech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Finding $3$-shredders efficiently.
  Rajneesh Hegde*, Georgia Tech
  (975-05-166)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Isoperimetric constants of infinite plane graphs.
  Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
  (975-05-160)
- 8:55 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:15 a.m.
  Excluding $K_{2,n}$-minors.
  Guoli Ding*, LSU
  (975-05-240)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Unavoidable $K_{3,k}$-Minors in Large $7$-Connected Graphs.
  Thomas Boehme, Technical University of Ilmenau
  John Maharry*, The Ohio State University
  Bojan Mohar, University of Ljubljana
  (975-05-195)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Eulerian Digraph Immersion.
  Thor D Johnson*, Princeton University
  Paul D Seymour, Princeton University
  (975-05-329)
- 11:45 a.m.
  A generalization of a theororem of Dirac.
  Tristan MJ Denley*, University of Mississippi
  Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi
  (975-05-145)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 3:05 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, III
Room 205, Instructional Center
Organizers:
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@marais.math.lsu.edu
Bogdan Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology thomas@math.gatech.edu
- 3:05 p.m.
  Partitioning matroids with only small cocircuits.
  Bogdan Oporowski*, Louisiana State University
  (975-05-355)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Random Bases in Matroids.
  Russell D Lyons*, Indiana University/Georgia Tech
  (975-05-107)
- 4:05 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:35 p.m.
  Contractible elements in graphs and matroids.
  Haidong Wu*, University of Mississippi
  (975-05-373)
- 5:05 p.m.
  Some Structural Results for Matroids.
  S. R. Kingan*, Penn State Harrisburg
  M. Lemos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  (975-05-62)
- 5:35 p.m.
  On Cocircuits of Bicircular Matroids.
  Jenny McNulty*, The University of Montana
  Nancy Ann Neudauer, Pacific University
  (975-05-417)

Sunday March 10, 2002, 10:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, IV
Room 205, Instructional Center
Organizers:
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@marais.math.lsu.edu
Bogdan Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology thomas@math.gatech.edu
- 10:10 a.m.
  Graphs with small Ramsey numbers.
  Alexandr Kostochka*, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Benny Sudakov, Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study
  (975-05-64)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Matching Properties in Domination Critical Graphs.
  Nawarat Ananchuen, Silpakorn University
  Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
  (975-05-77)
- 11:10 a.m.
  The cycle double cover conjecture and circuit decompositions.
  Matthew J DeVos*, Princeton University
  (975-05-164)
- 11:40 a.m.
  Edge coloring in plane multigraphs.
  Bertrand F Guenin*, University of Waterloo
  (975-05-345)
- 12:10 p.m.
  Equivalent versions of the 3-flow conjecture.
  Martin Kochol*, Slovak Academy of Sciences
  (975-05-251)

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