AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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2009 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Urbana, IL, March 27-29, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1047

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Special Session on Graph Theory

• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 161, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Alexander V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kostochk@math.uiuc.edu
  Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign west@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Packing seagulls.
    Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
    Paul Seymour*, Princeton University
    (1047-05-314)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Compact topological cliques in sparse graphs.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
    (1047-05-111)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finding minors in graphs with a given path structure.
    André Kündgen*, California State University San Marcos
    Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Radhika Ramamurthi, California State University San Marcos
    (1047-05-467)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graph Minors and graph linkages.
    Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
    Gexin Yu*, College of William and Mary
    (1047-05-244)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $K_5$-subdivisions in 5-connected nonplanar graphs.
    Jie Ma, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Xingxing Yu*, Georgia institute of Technology
    (1047-05-104)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Teledomination in special graph classes: A survey of algorithmic and complexity results.
    Jan Kratochvil*, Charles University, Prague
    (1047-05-436)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Rao's degree sequence conjecture and well-quasi-ordering tournaments by immersion.
    Maria Chudnovsky*, Columbia Univeristy
    Paul Seymour, Princeton Univeristy
    (1047-05-239)
• Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 161, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Alexander V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kostochk@math.uiuc.edu
  Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign west@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Injective colorings of sparse graphs.
    Daniel W Cranston*, DIMACS, Rutgers
    Seog-Jin Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
    Gexin Yu, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
    (1047-05-154)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    k-fold list colorings with Hall's condition.
    Jeno Lehel*, The University of Memphis
    (1047-05-473)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The rank-chromatic number and the rank-flow number.
    Luis A Goddyn*, Simon Fraser University
    (1047-05-414)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph Packing, Game Coloring and $2$-Coloring Number.
    H. A. Kierstead*, Arizona State University
    A. V. Kostochka, University of Illinois, Urbana and Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk
    (1047-05-401)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Saturation Numbers.
    Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
    (1047-05-101)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Saturation Numbers.
    Ralph Faudree*, University of Memphis
    (1047-05-52)
• Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 161, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Alexander V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kostochk@math.uiuc.edu
  Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign west@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maximal Independent Sets in Adjacent Levels of the Cube.
    Dwight Duffus*, Mathematics & Computer Science Department, Emory University
    Peter Frankl, Tokyo, Japan
    Vojtech Rodl, Mathematics & Computer Science Department, Emory University
    (1047-05-312)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Partitioning Subset Lattices into Intervals.
    William T. Trotter*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1047-05-263)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Diamond-free families of subsets.
    Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
    (1047-05-456)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the degree of regularity of a specific linear equation.
    André E. Kézdy*, University of Louisville
    Hunter Snevily, University of Idaho at Moscow
    (1047-05-292)
• Sunday March 29, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room 161, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Alexander V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kostochk@math.uiuc.edu
  Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign west@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cycle covers -- minimal contra pairs, Petersen chain and Hamilton weights.
    Cun-Quan Zhang*, West Virginia University
    (1047-05-190)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cyclable sets of vertices in 3-connected graphs.
    Hao Li*, CNRS and Universite Paris-sud 11, France
    Yan Zhu, Universite Paris-sud 11 and Shandong University
    (1047-05-281)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On $s$-hamiltonian connected line graphs.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
    Yanting Liang, West Virginia University
    Yehong Shao, Ohio University Southern
    (1047-05-213)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Even Square of Hamilton Cycles.
    Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
    Katsuhiro Ota, Keio University
    Akita Saito, Nihon University
    Yi Zhao, Gorgia State University
    (1047-05-141)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Symmetries of $(3,6)$-fullerenes.
    Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1047-05-320)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On the Chudnovsky, Seymour, and Sullivan's conjecture.
    Molly Dunkum, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Western Kentucky University
    Peter Hamburger*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Western Kentucky University
    Attila P{ó}r, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Western Kentucky University
    (1047-05-129)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Packing and covering tetrahedra.
    Penny Haxell*, University of Waterloo
    Subir Ghosh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    (1047-05-354)

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