University of Ottawa

Ottawa–Carleton
Discrete Mathematics Group

Carleton University

Ottawa–Carleton Combinatorics&Optimization : previous seminars


Winter 2009

Date Time Venue Speaker Title (click for an abstract)
17th April 11:30 AM HP4351 Carleton Shonda Gosselin Self-complementary uniform hypergraphs
THURSDAY
9th April
2:00 PM FTX 147a uOttawa Koffi Y. Sampson Structured coalescent with nonconservative migration
3rd Apr. 11:30 AM HP4351 Carleton Mark Kayll
(University of Montana)
Integral formulas for counting matchings, or: Continuous meets discrete
27th Mar. 11:30 AM KED B015 uOttawa Behzad Omidi Koma The number of irreducible polynomials of degree n over Fq with given trace and constant terms
20th Mar. 11:30 AM HP4351 Carleton Mike Newman Quantum Chromatic Number
13th Mar. 11:30 AM
No seminar
6th Mar. 11:30 AM HP4351 Carleton Robert Bailey Packing spanning trees in graphs and bases in matroids
27th Feb. 11:30 AM KED B015 uOttawa Steven Wang On generalized Lucas sequences
20th Feb. 11:30 AM
No seminar
13th Feb. 11:30 AM
No seminar
6th Feb. 11:30 AM HP4351 CARLETON Gena Hahn
(Université de Montréal)
Cops-and-robbers on infinite graphs
30th Jan. 11:30 AM KED B015 UOTTAWA Open Problem Session

23rd Jan. 11:30 AM HP4351 CARLETON Jeff Gilchrist How we discovered 2^43112609-1 is prime
16th Jan
11:30 AM KED B015 UOTTAWA
Chris Lewis
Combinatorial Game Theory

Fall Term 2008

Date Time Venue Speaker Title (click for an abstract)
WEDNESDAY
3 December
11.30 AM
Carleton
TB202
Dan Hoffman
(University of Victoria)
A Perfect Marriage: Covering arrays and Grammar-Based Test Generation
28 November 11.30 AM U. Ottawa
FTX 137
Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi Min-Sum decoding algorithm for solving sparse linear congruence systems
21 November 11.30 AM Carleton
HP4351
Ladislav Stacho
(Simon Fraser University)
Cyclic colorings of plane graphs with independent faces
14 November 11.30 AM U. Ottawa
FTX 137
Robert Bailey Base size, metric dimension and other stories
7 November 11.30 AM Carleton
HP4351
Jessica McDonald
(University of Waterloo)
Multigraphs with high chromatic index: Vizing's Bound
31 October 11.30 AM U. Ottawa
FTX 137
Kevin Cheung Task assignment—a case study
24 October 11.30 AM Carleton
HP4351

Open problem session
17 October 11.30 AM U. Ottawa
FTX 137
Brett Stevens Venn diagrams and symmetries
3 October 11.30 AM U. Ottawa
FTX 137
Reza Naserasr The Graham–Pollak Theorem and Alon–Saks–Seymour Conjecture
26 September 11.30 AM Carleton
HP4351
Mike Newman Matroid Asymptotics
19 September 11.30 AM U. Ottawa
FTX 137

Open problem session

Winter Term 2008

Date Speaker Title (click for an abstract)
25 April Amy Cameron Multi-two-edge connected subgraph problems
14 March Jane He The path ideal of a tree and its properties
29 February Maryam Haghighi Applications of combinatorics in genomics
20 February Gordon Royle
(University of Western Australia)
Cores of strongly regular and other highly structured graphs
1 February Jason Gao Graph polynomial and vertex colouring
18 January David Laferriere Classification of walks in wedges

Fall Term 2007

Date Speaker Title (click for an abstract)
23 November Reza Naserasr Quantum physics and graph colouring
9 November Andrea Burgess Closed trail decompositions of complete equipartite graphs
2 November Robert Bailey Covering and uncovering on structures
24 October Nancy Neudauer
(Pacific University)
Representations of bicircular matroids
19 October Eric Mendelsohn
(University of Toronto)
On the chromatic spectrum of graph decomposition
12 October Jason Gao Finding long cycles in 3-connected graphs with bounded degrees
21 September Lucia Moura Covering arrays and locating faulty interactions in software testing