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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 Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics

• Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room 163, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign z-furedi@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    New results in Erdos-Frankl-Rodl theory.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Bela Bollobas, Cambridge Univerity, UK and U. of Memphis, TN
    Miklos Simonovits*, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
    (1047-05-334)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Random transceiver networks.
    Paul Balister*, University of Memphis
    Béla Bollobás, Cambridge University, UK, and University of Memphis
    Mark Walters, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
    (1047-60-419)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the sum-product problem.
    Jozsef Solymosi*, Department of Mathematics. University of British Columbia
    (1047-05-307)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Counting graphs without a fixed subgraph.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Wojciech Samotij*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-05-339)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the minimum degree of minimal Ramsey graphs.
    Tibor Szabo*, McGill University
    Philipp Zumstein, ETH Zurich
    Stefanie Zuercher, ETH Zurich
    (1047-05-471)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Independent dominating sets in graphs of girth five.
    Jacques A Verstraete*, University of California San Diego
    (1047-05-481)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Phylogenetic combinatorics.
    Laszlo A Szekely*, University of South Carolina
    (1047-05-183)
• Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, II
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign z-furedi@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extremal problems for multipartite graphs.
    Rahil Baber, University College London
    J Robert Johnson, Queen Marys University of London
    John Talbot*, University College London
    (1047-05-260)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Avoider-Enforcer games.
    József Balogh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
    (1047-05-256)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bilinear and Quadratic Variants on the Littlewood-Offord Problem.
    Kevin P Costello*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1047-05-441)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal Random Matchings on Trees and Applications.
    Bela Csaba*, Dept. of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University
    Ali Shokoufandeh, Dept. of Computer Science, Drexel University
    Jeff Abrahamson, Dept. of Computer Science, Drexel University
    (1047-05-266)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extremal problems for counting homomorphisms.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1047-05-276)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A simple entropy proof of the Kahn-Lovasz theorem.
    Andrew J. Radcliffe*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University
    (1047-05-245)
• Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, III
  Room 163, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign z-furedi@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    It's a long way to recurrence - an extremal problem in the Abelian Sandpile Model.
    László Babai*, University of Chicago
    Igor Gorodezky, Cornell University
    Allie Shapiro, Toyota Technological Institute - Chicago
    (1047-05-434)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Random Erdos-Ko-Rado.
    Jozsef Balogh, UIUC
    Tom Bohman, CMU
    Dhruv Mubayi*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1047-05-118)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New bounds in the Zarankiewicz problem.
    Vladimir Nikiforov*, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
    (1047-05-318)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Large induced trees in $K_r$-free graphs.
    Jacob Fox, Princeton University
    Po-Shen Loh*, Princeton University
    Benny Sudakov, UCLA
    (1047-05-96)
• Sunday March 29, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, IV
  Room 163, Noyes Lab
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign z-furedi@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a Variant of van der Waerden's Theorem.
    Sujith Vijay*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1047-05-365)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial problems from and for Horn formulas.
    Marina Langlois, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. Comp. Sci.
    Dhruv Mubayi, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. Math., Stat. and Comp.Sci.
    Robert H. Sloan, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. Comp. Sci.
    Gyorgy Turan*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. Math., Stat. and Comp.Sci.
    (1047-05-278)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Turán type problems and polychromatic colorings on the hypercube.
    David Offner*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1047-05-366)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Graphs with four boundary vertices and the Frame of a graph.
    Attila Por*, Western Kentucky University
    Tobias Muller, School of Mathematical Sciences, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University
    Jean-Sebastian Sereni, CNRS (LIAFA, Universite Denis Diderot), Paris
    (1047-05-397)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On colorings avoiding both monochromatic and rainbow subgraphs.
    Maria Axenovich*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    JiHyeok Choi, Iowa State University
    Perry Iverson, Iowa State University
    (1047-05-273)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Diameter of random spanning trees in a given graph.
    Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego
    Paul Horn, University of California, San Diego
    Linyuan Lu*, University of South Carolina
    (1047-05-374)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Thue-type games and highly nonrepetitive sequences.
    Wesley Pegden*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University (New Brunswick)
    (1047-05-39)

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