AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 10, 2007 00:30:01

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, I
Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Minimally $k$-Connected Matroids.
  Xiangqian Zhou*, Marshall University
  Talmage J Reid, University of Mississippi
  Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi
  (1033-05-64)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Largest Eigenvalue of Non-regular Graphs.
  Bolian Liu, South China Normal University
  Jian Shen*, Texas State University
  Xinmao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China
  (1033-05-230)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Vizing's Independence Number Conjecture of Critical Graphs.
  Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
  Yue Zhao*, University of Central Florida
  (1033-05-28)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Adapted list coloring of graphs and hypergraphs.
  Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Xuding Zhu, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
  (1033-05-25)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Acyclic colorings of Hamming graphs.
  Gretchen L Matthews*, Clemson University
  (1033-05-117)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Colored problems are NP-complete for paths.
  Peter John Slater*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  (1033-05-213)

Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, II
Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Minimum Degree and Edge Hamiltonian Digraphs.
  J. R Faudree, University of Alaska - Fairbanks
  R. J. Faudree*, University of Memphis
  L. Lesniak, Drew University
  (1033-05-145)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some recent results on strong connectivity.
  Ronald J Gould*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
  (1033-05-102)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Partitioning Tournaments into Two Transitive Subtournaments.
  Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
  Arthur Busch, University of Dayton
  Michael S Jacobson, University of Colorado at Denver
  (1033-05-124)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On judicious partitions of graphs.
  Baogang Xu, Nanjing Normal Unversity
  Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1033-05-69)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Vertex-disjoint chorded cycles in graphs.
  Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
  Yehong Shao, Ohio University Southern
  Mingquan Zhan, Millersville University
  (1033-05-33)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Parity and Disparity Subgraphs.
  Terry A. McKee*, Wright State University
  (1033-05-14)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Finite duality of minor closed classes.
  Jaroslav Nesetril, Charles University, Prague
  Yared Nigussie*, East Tennessee State University
  (1033-05-63)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some Properties of k-trees.
  James Shook, University of Mississippi
  Bing Wei*, University of Mississippi
  (1033-05-43)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On circuit sizes of matroids.
  Talmage James Reid*, The University of Mississippi
  Haidong Wu, The University of Mississippi
  Manoel Lemos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  (1033-05-110)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Transit graphs.
  R. Douglas Chatham*, Morehead State University
  Gerd H. Fricke, Morehead State University
  Joe Harless, Morehead State University
  R. Duane Skaggs, Morehead State University
  Nick Wahle, Morehead State University
  (1033-05-15)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Non-separating cocircuits in binary matroids.
  Haidong Wu*, University of Mississippi
  (1033-05-100)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Universal Cycles of Functions.
  Anant P Godbole*, East Tennessee State University
  (1033-05-93)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 3:00 p.m.
  The orientable genus of $K_{\ell,m,n}$ with $m \equiv 3 \pmod 4$ and $n \equiv 2 \pmod 4$.
  Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
  D. Christopher Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  (1033-05-154)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Equimatchable graphs in surfaces.
  Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, National Institute for Informatics
  Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
  (1033-05-111)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Edge-partitions of planar graphs.
  O. Borodin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
  A. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  N. Sheikh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Gexin Yu*, Vanderbilt University
  (1033-05-99)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Book Embeddings of Chessboard Graphs.
  Casey Hufford, Morehead State Universtiy
  Robin Blankenship*, Morehead State University
  (1033-05-21)

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