AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:45

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday November 6, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Polynomials, I
Room 523, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
E. Glen Whitehead, Jr., University of Pittsburgh egw1@pitt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  An Introduction to Graph Polynomials.
  Earl Glen Whitehead*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1002-05-99)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Totally Matchable Graphs.
  Kimberly J Burch*, Montclair State University
  Earl Glen Whitehead, Jr., University of Pittsburgh
  (1002-05-86)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A brute-force method for studying chromatic equivalence of homeomorphic graphs.
  Ronald C. Read*, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
  (1002-05-14)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A categorification for the chromatic polynomial.
  Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
  Laure Helme-Guizon, The George Washington University
  (1002-05-187)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Computation of Tutte Polynomials.
  Gary Haggard*, Bucknell University
  Gordon Royle, University of Western Australia
  (1002-05-15)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A characteristic polynomial for chordal graphs and rooted graphs.
  Elizabeth W. McMahon*, Lafayette College
  Beth Shimkus, Lehigh University
  Jessica Wolfson, Lafayette College
  (1002-05-161)

Sunday November 7, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Polynomials, II
Room 523, Benedum Hall
Organizers:
E. Glen Whitehead, Jr., University of Pittsburgh egw1@pitt.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Reconstructing (and not reconstructing) trees from probability data.
  David Eisenstat, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
  Gary Gordon*, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
  (1002-05-160)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the sandpile group of regular trees.
  Evelin Toumpakari*, University of Chicago
  (1002-05-41)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A strange tree--enumeration formula from electrical network theory.
  David G. Wagner*, University of Waterloo C&O Department
  (1002-05-23)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Monomial Bases for NBC Complexes.
  Jason I Brown, Dalhousie University
  Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
  (1002-05-102)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Properties of the interlace polynomial.
  Joanna Anthony Ellis-Monaghan*, St. Michael's College
  Irasema Sarmiento, CINEVESTAV, Mexico
  (1002-05-85)

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