AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 3, 2010 00:25:08

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday March 27, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Matroid Theory, I
Room 219, White Hall
Organizers:
Jakayla Robbins, University of Kentucky jrobbins@ms.uky.edu
Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Elements in unavoidable minors of $3$-connected binary matroids.
  Deborah Chun*, Louisiana State University
  (1057-05-365)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Bounding Coefficients of Characteristic Polynomials of Binary Matroids.
  Loni Delaplane*, Birmingham-Southern College
  Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi
  (1057-05-208)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random Matroids.
  Mike Newman*, University of Ottawa
  (1057-05-302)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Matroids and root systems.
  Gary Gordon*, Lafayette College
  (1057-05-77)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Chain Theorem for Internally $4$-connected Binary Matroids.
  Carolyn Chun, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  Dillon Mayhew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  James Oxley*, Louisiana State University
  (1057-05-240)

Saturday March 27, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Matroid Theory, II
Room 219, White Hall
Organizers:
Jakayla Robbins, University of Kentucky jrobbins@ms.uky.edu
Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Representing some non-representable matroids.
  Rudi Pendavingh, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  Stefan van Zwam*, Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Waterloo, Canada
  (1057-05-150)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Binary matroid minors.
  Geoffrey P Whittle*, Victoria University of Wellington
  Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo
  Bert Gerards, CWI Amsterdam
  (1057-05-85)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cyclically sequential internally 4-connected binary matroids.
  Jeremy M Aikin*, Macon State College
  Carolyn Chun, Victoria University of Wellington
  Rhiannon Hall, Brunel University
  Dillon Mayhew, Victoria University of Wellington
  (1057-05-83)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Fan-like 4-separating structures in binary matroids.
  Rhiannon Hall*, Brunel University
  Jeremy Aikin, Macon State College
  Carolyn Chun, Victoria University of Wellington
  Dillon Mayhew, Victoria University of Wellington
  (1057-05-154)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tutte functions of matroids.
  Joanna Ellis-Monaghan, St. Michael's College
  Thomas Zaslavsky*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  (1057-05-74)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The signed graph $-K_5$.
  Daniel Slilaty*, Wright State University
  (1057-05-458)

Sunday March 28, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Matroid Theory, III
Room 219, White Hall
Organizers:
Jakayla Robbins, University of Kentucky jrobbins@ms.uky.edu
Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Oriented Incidence and a Generalization of Hypergraphs.
  Lucas J. Rusnak*, Binghamton University
  (1057-05-167)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A construction of a projective rectangle in a full algebraic matroid.
  Rigoberto Florez*, University of South Carolina Sumter
  (1057-05-220)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Fixing Number and Matroids.
  Jenny McNulty*, The University of Montana
  Gary Gordon, Lafayette College
  Nancy Neudauer, Pacific University
  (1057-05-397)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Matroids and k-arcs in Projective Geometries.
  Talmage James Reid*, The University of Mississippi
  Joshua Adam Gray, The University of Mississippi
  (1057-05-281)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent progress in graph and matroid theory.
  Neil Robertson*, the Ohio State Univeristy
  (1057-05-456)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Obstacles to matroid decomposition theorems.
  Dillon Mayhew*, Victoria University of Wellington
  Geoff Whittle, Victoria University of Wellington
  Stefan van Zwam, University of Waterloo
  (1057-05-78)

Sunday March 28, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Matroid Theory, IV
Room 219, White Hall
Organizers:
Jakayla Robbins, University of Kentucky jrobbins@ms.uky.edu
Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Construction of Infinite Sets of Intertwines for Pairs of Matroids.
  Joseph E. Bonin*, he George Washington University
  (1057-05-22)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Inequivalence in Representable Matroids. Preliminary Report.
  Sandra Kingan*, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  (1057-05-151)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computation in Multicriteria Matroid Optimization.
  Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
  David Haws*, University of Kentucky
  Jon Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  Allison O'Hair, University of California, Davis
  (1057-05-325)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On clones in GF(q)-representable matroids.
  Xiangqian Zhou*, Wright State University
  (1057-05-107)

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