AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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2008 Spring Southeastern Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 28-30, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1037

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

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Special Session on Structural Graph Theory

• Friday March 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Structural Graph Theory, I
  Room 108, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University mchudnov@columbia.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    $K_t$-minors in large $t$-connected graphs.
    Serguei Norine*, Princeton University
    Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1037-05-205)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Clique Minors and Odd Clique Minors.
    Zixia Song*, University of Central Florida
    (1037-05-157)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hadwiger's conjecture for quasi-line graphs.
    Alexandra Ovetsky Fradkin*, Princeton University
    (1037-05-69)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hadwiger number of Cartesian products of graphs.
    L. Sunil Chandran, Indian Institute of Science
    A. V. Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    J. Krishnam Raju, University of Waterloo
    (1037-05-43)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Chain theorems for 4-prime graphs.
    Sang-il Oum*, KAIST
    (1037-05-211)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Facial coloring.
    Frederic Havet*, Projet Mascotte, I3S(CNRS/UNSA) and INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
    Daniel Kral, ITI Charles University, Prague
    Jean-Sebastien Sereni, KAM and ITI Charles University, Prague
    Riste Skrekovski, Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana
    (1037-05-127)
• Saturday March 29, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Structural Graph Theory, II
  Room 105, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University mchudnov@columbia.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Topological space of metric graphs.
    Dmitry N Kozlov*, University of Bremen, Germany
    (1037-05-317)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The topological connectivity of the complex of independent sets of a graph.
    Ron Aharoni*, Technion, Haifa, Israel
    (1037-05-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Connectivity of random addable graphs.
    Stefanie Gerke*, Royal Holloway College
    Paul Balister, University of Memphis
    Bela Bollobas, Trinity College Cambridge and University of Memphis
    (1037-05-200)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bounding the chromatic number of claw-free graphs.
    Andrew D King*, McGill University
    Bruce A Reed, McGill University
    (1037-05-54)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unavoidable minors of infinite graphs and matroids.
    Carolyn B. Chun*, Louisiana State University
    Guoli Ding, Louisiana State University
    (1037-05-268)
• Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Structural Graph Theory, III
  Room 105, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University mchudnov@columbia.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fullerene graphs - combinatorics meets chemistry.
    Frantisek Kardos, University of Pavol Jozef Safarik, Kosice
    Daniel Kral*, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI), Charles University, Prague
    Jozef Miskuf, University of Pavol Jozef Safarik, Kosice
    Jean-Sebastien Sereni, DIMATIA, Charles University, Prague
    (1037-05-109)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $(3,6)$-Fullerenes are Spectrally Nearly Bipartite.
    Matt DeVos, Simon Fraser University
    Luis Goddyn*, Simon Fraser University
    Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University
    Robert \v{S}\'amal, Simon Fraser University
    (1037-05-161)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Blockers and transversals.
    Cedric Bentz, Universit\'e Paris Sud
    Marie-Christine Costa, CNAM, Paris
    Dominique de Werra, EPFL, Lausanne
    Christophe Picouleau, CNAM, Paris
    Bernard Ries*, EPFL, Lausanne
    Rico Zenklusen, ETHZ, Zurich
    (1037-05-170)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lehman matrices.
    Gerard Cornuejols*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Bertrand Guenin, University of Waterloo
    Levent Tuncel, University of Waterloo
    (1037-05-98)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Quasi-bipartite Graphs.
    Guoli Ding*, LSU
    Li Feng, The University of Hong Kong
    Wenan Zang, The University of Hong Kong
    (1037-05-212)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On graphs that do not contain a cycle with a unique chord.
    Nicolas Trotignon*, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Universite Paris 1
    Kristina Vuskovic, University of Leeds
    (1037-05-39)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Structural Graph Theory, IV
  Room 105, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University mchudnov@columbia.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Adjusted Interval Digraphs and List Homomorphisms.
    Tom\'as Feder, Palo Alto, California
    Pavol Hell*, Simon Fraser University
    Jing Huang, University of Victoria
    (1037-05-50)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Intersections of graphs.
    Alexander D Scott*, University of Oxford
    (1037-05-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Perfect matchings in planar cubic graphs.
    Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
    Paul Seymour*, Princeton University
    (1037-05-90)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    When do two graphs have the same set of even cycles?
    Bertrand Guenin*, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
    Irene Pivotto, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
    Paul Wollan, University of Hamburg
    (1037-05-304)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the S. B. Rao well-quasi-order conjecture.
    Chris Altomare, Ohio State University
    Neil Robertson*, Ohio State University
    Zixia Song, University of Central Florida
    (1037-05-374)

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