Discrete Math Seminar Spring 2009

Department of Mathematics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Meeting Time: Tuesdays 2:00-2:50pm in 351 Avery Hall

Seminar Coordinator: Stephen Hartke

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List of other math dept seminars. Talks from previous semesters: fall 2008.

Talks

Jan 13: Stephen Hartke, Fisher's proof for tournaments of Seymour's 2nd neighborhood conjecture (abstract)
Jan 20: Jamie Radcliffe, Threshold graphs and the Grone-Merris conjecture (abstract)
Jan 27: Derrick Stolee, Log-space algorithm for reachability problem in planar DAGs with few sources (abstract)
Feb 3: Derrick Stolee, part 2
Feb 10: Andrew Ray, an introduction to algebraic graph theory (abstract)
Feb 17: Stephen Hartke, interlacing of eigenvalues for subgraphs
Feb 24: Christine Kelley, the spectral gap and expander graphs
Mar 3: Brenda Mammenga, Disjunctive and Selectivity Rado Numbers (abstract)
Fri Mar 13 at 2:30pm in 109 Avery: John Konvalina, Boolean Networks, Combinatorics, and the Fractal Nature of Life (abstract)
Mar 17: No seminar, spring break.
Mar 24: Travis Johnston, sorting signed permutations with cut-and-paste operations (abstract)
Mar 31: Jamie Radcliffe, the sign of a permutation of a multiset
Apr 7: Justin DeVries, the chromatic polynomial via homology (abstract)
Apr 14: Nate Axvig, an introduction to matroids
Apr 21: Cancelled so people may attend Duane Einfeld's thesis defense
Apr 28: Nate Axvig, an introduction to matroids, part 2: greedy algorithm and the matroid intersection theorem

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