Ottawa–Carleton Combinatorics&Optimization Seminars

We hold talks from 2:30 – 3:30 pm every second Friday, either at Carleton or uOttawa.

If you would like to give a talk at the seminar, please contact one of the organizers:

mnewman at uottawa dot ca; msajna at uottawa dot ca; wang at math dot carleton dot ca

You can browse some seminars from previous terms:
2009–2010 2007–2009 2004–2007 2001–2004

Winter 2019

Date	Time&Place	Speaker	Title & Abstracts
15 March.	2:30pm HP4351 Carleton	Svenja Huntemann Carleton University.	TBA
8 Feb.	2:30pm HP4351 Carleton	Jonathan Jedwab Carleton University.	TBA
1 Feb.	2:30pm B5 at 585 King Edward, Ottawa	Andrew Wagner University of Ottawa.	TBA

Fall 2018

Date	Time&Place	Speaker	Title
30 Nov	2:30pm HP4351 Carleton	Brett Stevens Carleton University.	Affine planes with ovals for blocks
23 Nov	2:30pm STEM 201 University of Ottawa	Lord Kavi, University of Ottawa.	Structural Properties and Characterisation of finite G-graphs
16 Nov	2:30pm HP4351 Carleton	Steven Wang Carleton University.	An index approach to polynomials over finite fields
9 Nov	2:30pm STEM 201 University of Ottawa	Virgelot Virgile University of Montreal.	Eternal domination on cartesian product of graphs with $K_2$
5 Oct	2:30pm HP4351 Carleton	Curtis Bright University of Waterloo.	SAT+CAS: A Powerful New Combinatorial Search Method
21 September	1:30pm B5 at 585 King Edward, Ottawa	Gena Hahn University of Montreal.	Cops-and-robber games on graphs

Winter 2013

Date	Time&Place	Speaker	Title
22 March	1:00 HP 4351 Carleton	David Wood Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)	Visibility Graphs: Many Conjectures and a Few Theorems
15 March	3:00 HP 4369 Carleton	David Thomson Carleton University	Byond Latin squares
8 March	2:00 HP 4369 Carleton	Melissa Huggan Carleton University	Sudoku and Geometry
22 February	3:00 HP 4369 Carleton	Sebastian Raaphorst University of Ottawa	Variable Strength Covering Arrays
8 February	3:00 HP 4369 Carleton	Sebastian Raaphorst University of Ottawa	CANCELLED Variable Strength Covering Arrays
25 January	3:00 HP 4369 Carleton	Peter Danziger Ryerson University	The Generalised Oberwolfach Problem: The Bipartite Case
11 January	2:00 HP 4369 Carleton	Gabriel Verret University of Primorska	A census of cubic vertex-transitive graphs

Fall 2012

Also found here.

Date	Time&Place	Speaker	Title
30 November	2:00 KED B004 uOttawa	Gwenaël Joret Université Libre de Bruxelles	Nonrepetitive Coloring via Entropy Compression
16 November	2:00 KED 004 uOttawa	Amin Bahmanian University of Ottawa	Connected Factorization of Complete Uniform Hypergraphs
2 November	2:00 KED 004 uOttawa	Mateja Šajna University of Ottawa	On Sheehan‘s Conjecture for graphs with symmetry
19 October	2:00 KED 004 uOttawa	Mike Newman University of Ottawa	“The missing axiom of matroid theory is (once again) lost forever”
5 October	2:00 KED 004 uOttawa	Mateja Šajna University of Ottawa	Cycle Systems: A Neverending Fascination
21 September	2:00 KED 004 uOttawa	Nevena Francetić Carleton University and University of Ottawa	Covering Arrays with Row Limit