AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, April 18, 2010 21:23:43

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2010 Spring Central Section Meeting
St. Paul, MN, April 10-11, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1058

Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Matrices and Graphs

• Saturday April 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, I
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Progress on the Graph Complement Conjecture.
    Shaun M Fallat*, University of Regina
    (1058-15-115)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimum semidefinite rank and the Heawood graph.
    Louis A Deaett*, University of Victoria
    (1058-15-210)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lower Bounds in Minimum Rank Problems.
    Sivaram K. Narayan*, Central Michigan University
    (1058-15-163)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimum Semidefinite Rank of Outerplanar Graphs.
    Francesco Barioli, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Shaun M Fallat, University of Regina
    Lon H Mitchell*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Sivaram K Narayan, Central Michigan University
    (1058-15-174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimum Rank of Outerplanar Graphs.
    Mark Kempton*, Brigham Young University
    (1058-15-245)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Minimum Rank Problem for Outerplanar Graphs.
    John Sinkovic*, Brigham Young University
    Mark Kempton, Brigham Young University
    (1058-15-285)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, II
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Zero Forcing Numbers for Graphs.
    Seth A. Meyer*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1058-05-192)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Results for improving computation of zero forcing number.
    Darren D. Row*, Iowa State University
    (1058-15-130)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computation of Minimum Rank.
    Jason Grout*, Drake University
    Laura DeLoss, DMACC
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    Tracy McKay, Iowa State University
    Jason Smith, Iowa State University
    Geoff Tims, Iowa State University
    H. Tracy Hall, Provo, UT
    Josh Lagrange, Iowa State University
    (1058-15-242)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    (0,1)-Matrices and Nonnegative Eigenvalues.
    Richard A Brualdi*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1058-15-47)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Acyclic matrices with a small number of distinct eigenvalues.
    Reshmi Nair*, University of Wyoming
    Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming
    (1058-05-64)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Hamilton Cycle Decompositions of Graphs.
    Michael William Schroeder*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Richard A Brualdi, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1058-05-293)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, III
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sign patterns that require or allow power-positivity.
    Minerva Catral*, Iowa State University
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    D. D. Olesky, University of Victoria
    P. van den Driessche, University of Victoria
    (1058-15-136)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Strongly Eventually Nonnegative Matrices.
    Minerva Catral, Iowa State University
    Craig Erickson*, Iowa State University
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    D. D. Olesky, University of Victoria
    P. van den Driessche, University of Victoria
    (1058-15-147)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectrally arbitrary patterns over finite fields.
    Elizabeth J. Bodine*, Washington State University
    Judith J. McDonald, Washington State University
    (1058-15-275)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Spectrally Arbitrary Patterns.
    Amy A Yielding*, Eastern Oregon University
    (1058-15-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spectrally Arbitrary Ray Patterns.
    Judith J. McDonald*, Washington State University
    Jeff Stuart, Pacific Luthern University
    (1058-15-214)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Preliminary Report on Sets of Inertias for Matrix Patterns.
    Michael S. Cavers*, University of Regina
    (1058-15-42)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, IV
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On nearly complete bipartite graphs.
    Yi-Fan Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
    Hung-Lin Fu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
    In-Jae Kim*, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    Eryn Stehr, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    Brendon Watts, University of Oklahoma, Norman
    (1058-15-118)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Connected Graphs with Minimum Skew Rank Equal to Four.
    Luz M. DeAlba*, Drake University
    (1058-15-114)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computing the Modular Chromatic Number of Trees.
    Todd G Will*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    Futaba Okamoto, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1058-05-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On decomposition of a complete graph into Latin square graphs.
    Jianmin Ma*, Oxford College, Emory University
    (1058-05-165)

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