AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

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

Friday March 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Matroid Theory, I
Room 112, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Of Cabbages and Kings.
  Joseph P Kung*, University of North Texas
  (1037-05-71)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Partial fields and matroids with several inequivalent representations over $GF(5)$.
  Rudi Pendavingh*, Eindhoven University of Technology
  Stefan van Zwam, Eindhoven University of Technology
  (1037-05-123)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Clone Sets of $GF(q)$-Representable Matroids.
  Talmage J Reid*, The University of Mississippi
  Xiangqian Zhou, Marshall University
  (1037-05-124)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Matroids with every two elements in a 4-element circuit.
  Deborah Chun*, Louisiana State University
  (1037-05-312)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Chromatic, Flow, and Tutte Polynomial Unique Graphs and Coefficients of the Characteristic Polynomial of a Binary Matroid.
  Haidong Wu*, University of Mississippi
  (1037-05-360)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Matroid Theory, II
Room 112, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Minor-minimally 3-connected Binary Matroids.
  Loni Delaplane*, University of Mississippi
  Talmage James Reid, University of Mississippi
  Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi
  Xiangqian Zhou, Marshall University
  (1037-05-297)
- 8:30 a.m.
  An Excluded Minor Characterization of Box-Mengerian Matroid Ports.
  Xujin Chen*, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Louisiana State University
  Gouli Ding, Louisiana State University
  Wenan Zang, The University of Hong Kong
  (1037-05-294)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Matroids from Graphs.
  Thomas Zaslavsky*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  (1037-05-305)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Signed-graphic matroids.
  Daniel C Slilaty*, Wright State University
  (1037-05-375)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Matroids with nine elements.
  Gordon Royle*, University of Western Australia
  Dillon Mayhew, Victoria University of Wellington
  (1037-05-302)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Matroid Theory, III
Room 112, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Binary matroids with no $M(K_{3,3})$-minor.
  Dillon Mayhew*, Victoria University of Wellington
  Gordon Royle, University of Western Australia
  Geoff Whittle, Victoria University of Wellington
  (1037-05-272)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Inductions for "4-connected" Graphs and Matroids.
  Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo
  Xiangqian Zhou*, Marshall University
  (1037-05-128)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Chain-type and splitter-type theorems for cocircuits and hyperplanes in 3-connected matroids.
  Rhiannon Hall*, Brunel University, United Kingdom
  (1037-05-112)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Constructive Characterizations of 3-Connected Matroids of Path Width Three.
  Brian Beavers*, Stephen F. Austin State University
  James Oxley, Louisiana State University
  (1037-05-318)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The structure of crossing separations in matroids.
  Jeremy M. Aikin*, Louisiana State University
  (1037-05-204)

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