Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting (formerly at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

• now meeting virtually, EDT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society)
• October 10-11, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1161

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Update: the 2020 Fall Sectional Meetings will be held VIRTUALLY on their original dates. Further details will be posted as soon as they become available. Please email any questions to Meetings staff.

• Saturday October 10, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Discrete Structures, I
  Special Session 23, AMS
  Organizers:
  Lutz Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology warnke@math.gatech.edu
  Xavier Perez Gimenez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Flat Littlewood polynomials exist.
    Paul Balister*, University of Oxford
    Bela Bollobas, University of Cambridge and University of Memphis
    Robert Morris, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Julian Sahasrabudhe, University of Cambridge
    Marius Tiba, University of Cambridge
    (1161-05-194)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On roots of random trigonometric polynomials.
    Hoi Nguyen*, The Ohio State University
    (1161-05-174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Central limit laws in majority dynamics (and a proof that bribing three voters suffices).
    Ross Berkowitz, Yale
    Pat Devlin*, Yale
    (1161-05-216)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On a $k$-matching algorithm and finding $k$-factors in random graphs with minimum degree $k+1$ in linear time.
    Michael Anastos*, Freie Universität Berlin
    (1161-05-252)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Perfectly sampling $k\geq (8/3 + o(1))\Delta$-colorings in graphs.
    Vishesh Jain*, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
    Ashwin Sah, MIT
    Mehtaab Sawhney, MIT
    (1161-60-203)
• Saturday October 10, 2020, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Discrete Structures, II
  Special Session 23, AMS
  Organizers:
  Lutz Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology warnke@math.gatech.edu
  Xavier Perez Gimenez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sandwiching random regular graphs by binomial random graphs.
    Pu Gao*, Univesity of Waterloo
    Mikhail Isaev, Monash University
    Brendan McKay, Australian National University
    (1161-05-201)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Perfect matchings in the random bipartite geometric graph.
    Abigail Raz*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Xavier Perez-Gimenez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1161-05-76)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the power of random greedy algorithms.
    He Guo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Lutz Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1161-05-280)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Variations on twins in permutations.
    Andrzej Dudek*, Western Michigan University
    (1161-05-125)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Shortest paths with a cost constraint: a probabilistic analysis.
    Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University
    Tomasz Tkocz*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1161-05-205)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Minimum Weight Disk Triangulations and Fillings.
    Eyal Lubetzky, Courant Institute, NYU
    Itai Benjamini, Weizmann Institute of Science
    Yuval Peled*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1161-60-295)
• Sunday October 11, 2020, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Discrete Structures, III
  Special Session 23, AMS
  Organizers:
  Lutz Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology warnke@math.gatech.edu
  Xavier Perez Gimenez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The effect of adding randomly weighted edges.
    Alan M. Frieze*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1161-05-138)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Thresholds Versus Fractional Expectation-Thresholds.
    Keith Frankston*, Rutgers University
    Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
    Bhargav Narayanan, Rutgers University
    Jinyoung Park, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1161-05-182)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The threshold for simple--connectedness in hypercube percolation.
    Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University
    Elliot Paquette*, McGill University
    Erika Roldan, Technische Universität München
    (1161-05-166)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Chromatic Number of Random Lifts of Regular Graphs.
    JD Nir*, University of Manitoba
    Xavier Perez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1161-05-222)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Tuza's conjecture in random graphs.
    Patrick Bennett*, Western Michigan University
    Ryan Cushman, Western Michigan University
    Andrzej Dudek, Western Michigan University
    (1161-05-224)
• Sunday October 11, 2020, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Discrete Structures, IV
  Special Session 23, AMS
  Organizers:
  Lutz Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology warnke@math.gatech.edu
  Xavier Perez Gimenez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A variant of the Erdős-Rényi random graph process.
    Pawel Pralat*, Ryerson University
    (1161-05-198)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Resilience of the rank of random matrices.
    Gweneth McKinley*, University of California, San Diego
    Asaf Ferber, University of California, Irvine
    Kyle Luh, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1161-05-136)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The $r$-to-$p$ norm of non-negative random matrices.
    Souvik Dhara*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Debankur Mukherjee, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Kavita Ramanan, Brown University
    (1161-60-144)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analyticity for classical gasses via recursion.
    Marcus Michelen*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Will Perkins, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1161-60-101)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Size Ramsey numbers of paths and cycles.
    Deepak Bal*, Montclair State University
    (1161-05-215)