AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 7, 2011 00:22:48

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2011 Spring Western Section Meeting
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
April 30 - May 1, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1071

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics

• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equitable list coloring of graphs with bounded degree.
    H. A. Kierstead*, Arizona State University
    A. V. Kostochka, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA and Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
    (1071-05-146)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Coverage and Percolation in Random Geometric Graphs.
    Amites Sarkar*, Western Washington University
    Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame
    (1071-05-168)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On crossing numbers of geometric proximity graphs.
    Bernardo M. Ábrego*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge
    Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Departamento de Matem\'ticas, CINVESTAV
    Silvia Fernández-Merchant, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge
    David Flores-Peñaloza, Department of Mathematics, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Ferran Hurtado, Departament de Matemática Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Vera Sacristán, Departament de Matemática Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Maria Saumell, Departament de Matemática Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    (1071-05-234)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimum Degree and Disjoint Cycles in Claw-free Graphs.
    Ralph J. Faudree, University of Memphis
    Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
    Michael S. Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver
    (1071-05-81)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimum Degree and Disjoint Cycles in Generalized Claw-free Graphs.
    Michael S Jacobson*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1071-05-194)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, II
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ramsey-goodness.
    Peter Allen, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    Graham Brightwell, London School of Economics
    Jozef Skokan*, London School of Economics
    (1071-05-209)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Ramsey-Turan numbers of graphs and hypergraphs.
    Jozsef Balogh*, U. of Illinois at UC and UC San Diego
    John Lenz, U. of Illinois at UC
    (1071-05-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Forbidden Configurations: Progress towards a Conjecture.
    Richard Anstee*, Mathematics, UBC, Vancouver
    Miguel Raggi, Mathematics, UBC, Vancouver
    Attila Sali, Renyi Institute, Budapest
    (1071-05-35)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Embedding Spanning Trees.
    Bela Csaba*, Dept. of Mathematics and Comp. Sci., Western Kentucky University
    Asif Jamshed, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University
    Endre Szemeredi, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University
    (1071-05-172)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Maximizing the number of $k$-sets.
    Silvia Fernández-Merchant*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge.
    Bernardo M. Ábrego, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge.
    Canek Peláez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    (1071-05-232)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Pósa's Conjecture.
    Phong Châu, Glendale Community College
    Louis DeBiasio*, Arizona State University
    Hal Kierstead, Arizona State University
    (1071-05-69)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, III
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Recent Progress on Bipartite Turán Numbers.
    J A Verstraete*, University of California, San Diego
    P Keevash, University of London
    B Sudakov, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1071-05-67)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cops and robbers in random graphs.
    Gabor Kun*, DIMACS
    Bela Bollobas, University of Cambridge & University of Memphis
    Imre Leader, University of Cambridge
    (1071-05-231)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Saturation Numbers for Families of Graph Subdivisions.
    Michael Ferrara*, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver
    Kevin Milans, University of South Carolina
    Craig Tennenhouse, University of New England
    Paul Wenger, University of Colorado Denver
    (1071-05-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal problems for homomorphisms.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1071-05-162)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Marking lines in $[k]^n$.
    Steve Butler*, UCLA
    Ron Graham, UC San Diego
    (1071-05-202)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, IV
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discrepancy inequalities for directed graphs.
    Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego
    Franklin Kenter*, University of California, San Diego
    (1071-05-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonnegative $k$-sums, fractional covers, and probability of small deviations.
    Hao Huang*, University of California-Los Angeles
    Benny Sudakov, University of California-Los Angeles
    Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
    (1071-05-186)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Diameter of Random Cubic Sum Graphs.
    Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego
    Stephen J Young*, University of California, San Diego
    (1071-05-192)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extremal Systems for the Fair and Biased Erdős-Selfridge Theorem.
    Eric Lars Sundberg*, Occidental College
    (1071-05-189)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Maximum union-free subfamilies.
    Jacob Fox, MIT
    Choongbum Lee*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Benny Sudakov, UCLA
    (1071-05-200)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Induced saturation number.
    Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
    Jason J Smith, Iowa State University
    (1071-05-143)

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