AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 13, 2007 00:36:29

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

Friday October 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, I
Room 1004, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago mubayi@math.uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  On hypergraph Tur\'an numbers.
  Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
  Yi Zhao*, Georgia State University
  (1030-05-136)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On families of subsets with a forbidden subposet.
  Jerrold R. Griggs, University of South Carolina
  Linyuan Lu*, Univeristy of South Carolina
  (1030-05-390)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Packing of graphs with small product of sizes.
  Alenxandr V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Gexin Yu*, Vanderbilt University
  (1030-05-249)

Friday October 5, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, II
Room 1004, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago mubayi@math.uic.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Nearly optimal embeddings of trees.
  Benny Sudakov, Princeton University
  Jan Vondrak*, Princeton University
  (1030-05-69)
- 3:00 p.m.
  An extension of Erdos-Stone theorem.
  Vladimir Nikiforov*, University of Memphis
  (1030-05-127)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Negative dependence and Srinivasan's sampling process.
  Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
  A J Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1030-05-389)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  Coloring uniform simple hypergraphs with few edges.
  Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mohit Kumbhat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1030-05-162)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Covering hypergraphs with cuts of minimum total size.
  Sebastian M. Cioab\u{a}*, University of California, San Diego
  Andr\'{e} K\"{u}ndgen, California State University, San Marcos
  (1030-05-338)
- 5:30 p.m.
  $M$-part $L$-Sperner families.
  Harout Aydinian, Universit\"at Bielefeld
  \'Eva Czabarka*, University of South Carolina
  P\'eter L Erd\H os, R\'enyi Institute, Hungary
  L\'aszl\'o Sz\'ekely, University of South Carolina
  (1030-05-377)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, III
Room 1004, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago mubayi@math.uic.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  Tur\'an's problem for the hypercube.
  J Robert Johnson, Queen Mary University of London
  John Talbot*, University College London
  (1030-05-99)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Extremal Problems for counting homomorphisms.
  Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University
  Andrew J Radcliffe*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1030-05-315)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Avoiding induced subgraphs as transversals in vertex-partitions.
  Maria Axenovich*, Iowa State University
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  (1030-05-295)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, IV
Room 1004, Lewis Center
Organizers:
Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago mubayi@math.uic.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Bandwidth of grid type of graphs.
  Jozsef Balogh*, U. of Illinois
  (1030-05-85)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Properly colored cycles and rainbow cycles in edge-colored graphs.
  Tao Jiang*, Miami University
  (1030-05-281)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On a Likely Number of Solutions for a Stable Marriage Problem.
  Craig Lennon*, The Ohio State University
  Boris Pittel, The Ohio State University
  (1030-05-27)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the edit distance in graphs.
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
  (1030-05-126)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Hales-Jewett Number and Hypercube Tic-tac-toe.
  Jozsef Beck, Rutgers University
  Wesley Pegden, Rutgers University
  Sujith Vijay*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1030-05-198)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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