AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 8, 2009 00:36:25

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday October 30, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, I
Room 108, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Zixia Song, University of Central Florida zsong@mail.ucf.edu
Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
- 3:00 p.m.
  A New Lower Bound on the Density of Vertex Identifying Codes for the Infinite Hexagonal Grid.
  Dan Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Gexin Yu*, College of William and Mary
  (1053-05-253)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Guarding Orthogonal Art Galleries with Holes.
  Hemanshu Kaul*, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago
  YoungJu Jo, Illinois Institute of Technology
  (1053-05-313)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An Enumerative Perspective on the Chain Poset.
  Teena Carroll*, St. Norbert College
  Josh Cooper, University of South Carolina
  Prasad Tetali, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1053-06-304)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The number of independent sets in graphs with small maximum degree.
  David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
  Yufei Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1053-05-30)
- 5:00 p.m.
  `Semi-Regular Trees' and Their Applications.
  Hua Wang*, Georgia Southern University
  (1053-05-269)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, II
Room 101, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Zixia Song, University of Central Florida zsong@mail.ucf.edu
Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
- 8:30 a.m.
  Counting flags in triangle-free digraphs.
  Jan Hladky, Chares University (Prague) and TU Munich
  Daniel Kral, Charles University (Prague)
  Serguei Norine*, Princeton University
  (1053-05-89)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A polynomial algorithm for the edge-disjoint paths problem for tournaments.
  Alexandra Ovetsky Fradkin*, Princeton University
  Paul Seymour, Princeton University
  (1053-05-209)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Orienting pseudographs and orientable cycle double covers for projective-planar graphs.
  Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  (1053-05-194)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spanning disks of toroidal embeddings.
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
  Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
  (1053-05-359)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Projective plane embeddings of a graph and signed graph representations of a matroid.
  John Maharry, Ohio State University
  Neil Robertson*, Ohio State University
  Vaidy Sivaraman, Ohio State University
  Daniel Slilaty, Wright State University
  (1053-05-336)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
Room 101, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Zixia Song, University of Central Florida zsong@mail.ucf.edu
Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sub-Exponentially Many 3-Colorings of Triangle-Free Planar Graphs.
  Arash Asadi, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Luke Postle*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1053-05-88)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On Saturation Numbers.
  Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
  (1053-05-99)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chromatic index involving edge density.
  Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
  Xingxing Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Wenan Zang, University of Hong Kong
  (1053-05-280)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Finding New Elementary Sets from Old Ones.
  Oguz Kurt*, The Ohio State University
  (1053-05-248)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Independence number and hamiltonicity of edge chromatic critical graphs.
  Rong Luo*, Middle Tennessee State University
  Yue Zhao, Univerisity of Central Florida
  (1053-05-115)

Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
Room 101, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Zixia Song, University of Central Florida zsong@mail.ucf.edu
Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
- 8:30 a.m.
  Projective-Planar Graphs with no $K_{3,4}$-minor.
  John Maharry*, Ohio State University
  Daniel Slilaty, Wright State University
  (1053-05-187)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Unavoidable Topological Minors of Infinite Graphs.
  Guoli Ding*, LSU
  Carolyn Chun, LSU
  (1053-05-259)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Decomposing and transforming cubic graphs.
  Evan Morgan, Louisiana State University
  Bogdan Oporowski*, Louisiana State University
  (1053-05-356)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The second circuit conjecture and cycle double cover conjecture.
  Cun-Quan Zhang*, West Virginia University
  (1053-05-329)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Advances in algebraic methods in graph theory.
  Joseph P. Brennan*, University of Central Florida
  (1053-05-358)

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