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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis campus), Minneapolis, MN
October 28-30, 2016 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1123

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics

• Friday October 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, I
  TMH 448, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College abeverid@macalester.edu
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Michael Young, Iowa State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The waiting game: Balanced allocation via random choices.
    Amanda Redlich*, Bowdoin College
    (1123-05-383)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Degree conditions for small contagious sets in bootstrap percolation.
    Michael Dairyko, Iowa State University
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado - Denver
    Bernard Lidický, Iowa State University
    Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
    Tyrrell McAllister, University of Wyoming
    Florian Pfender, University of Colorado - Denver
    Andrew Uzzell*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1123-05-300)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the List Chromatic Number of the Cartesian Product of Graphs.
    Hemanshu Kaul*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Jeffrey Mudrock, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1123-05-387)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The combinatorics of ray sensor networks.
    Kirk Boyer, University of Denver
    Paul Horn*, University of Denver
    Mario Lopez, University of Denver
    (1123-05-381)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Ramsey-Turán numbers with small $s$-independence number.
    Andrzej Dudek*, Western Michigan University
    (1123-05-96)
• Saturday October 29, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, II
  TMH 448, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College abeverid@macalester.edu
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Michael Young, Iowa State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Independent sets near the lower bound in bounded degree graphs.
    Zdenek Dvorak, Charles University in Prague
    Bernard Lidicky*, Iowa State University
    (1123-05-50)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Restricted Stirling and Lah numbers, and their inverses.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1123-05-46)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Random sampling in computational algebra: Helly numbers and violator spaces.
    Jesus A De Loera, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
    Sonja Petrovic, Applied Mathematics Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Despina Stasi*, Applied Mathematics Department, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1123-05-412)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Perfect matchings and Hamilton cycles in the preferential attachment model.
    Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University
    Xavier Pérez-Giménez*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Pawel Pralat, Ryerson University
    Benjamin Reiniger, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1123-05-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multi-part Nordhaus-Gaddum type problems for tree-width, Colin de Verdière type parameters, and Hadwiger number.
    Leslie Hogben*, Iowa State University and American Institute of Mathematics
    Jephian C.-H. Lin, Iowa State University
    Michael Young, Iowa State University
    (1123-05-36)
• Saturday October 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, III
  TMH 448, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College abeverid@macalester.edu
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Michael Young, Iowa State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Erdos-Szekeres convex polygon problem.
    Andrew Suk*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1123-52-81)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An asymptotic multipartite Kühn-Osthus theorem.
    Ryan R Martin*, Iowa State University
    Richard Mycroft, University of Birmingham
    Jozef Skokan, London School of Economics
    (1123-05-20)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Infection processes on infinite trees.
    Karen Gunderson*, University of Manitoba
    (1123-05-375)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Coloring the square of subcubic planar graphs.
    Stephen G. Hartke*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1123-05-48)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, IV
  TMH 448, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College abeverid@macalester.edu
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Michael Young, Iowa State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Induced Turán numbers.
    Craig Timmons*, California State University Sacramento
    Po-Shen Loh, Carnegie Mellon
    Michael Tait, Carnegie Mellon
    (1123-05-193)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimum number of edges in digraphs with specified diameter.
    Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Sogol Jahanbekam*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1123-05-289)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal graphs forbidding an odd cycle.
    David S. Gunderson*, University of Manitoba
    (1123-05-404)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimizing the independence polynomial over regular graphs.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1123-05-283)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Triangle-tilings in graphs without large independent sets.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Andrew McDowell, University of Birmingham
    Theodore Molla*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin
    Richard Mycroft, University of Birmingham
    (1123-05-85)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Enumeration of domino tilings of a double Aztec rectangle.
    Tri Lai*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1123-05-114)

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