Discrete Math Seminar Archive of Talks

Department of Mathematics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Fall 2008

Aug 26: Organization; Stephen Hartke, Two short beautiful proofs: the number of degree sequences of forests on n vertices and extending perfect matchings in the hypercube to hamiltonian cycles.
Sept 2: Christine Kelley, the Hirsch conjecture and 0/1 polytopes (abstract)
Sept 9: Stephen Hartke, the second short beautiful proof: extending perfect matchings in the hypercube to hamiltonian cycles.
Sept 16: Brian Kell, partial cubes
Sept 23: Brian Kell, partial cubes, continued.
Sept 30: Nate Axvig, Some Aspects of Cycle Codes. (abstract)
Fri Oct 3: Mike Ferrara will be speaking in the colloquium about Some Problems on Graph Subdivisions. (abstract)
Oct 7: Nate Axvig, cycle codes, continued.
Oct 14: Katie Morrison, an introduction to network coding. (abstract)
Oct 21: Fall break, no seminar.
Oct 28: Katie Morrison, network coding, continued.
Nov 4: Jamie Radcliffe, Entropy methods for estimating the number of perfect matchings in graphs. (abstract)
Nov 11: Stephen Hartke, counting perfect matchings in planar graphs.
Nov 18: Derek Boeckner, higher correlation inequalities. (abstract)
Nov 25: Abby Brackins, derivation of the uncertainty function. (abstract)
Dec 2: Katie Haymaker, On optimal instantaneous codes: A look at Huffman coding. (abstract)
Fri Dec 5: Christine Kelley will be speaking in the colloquium about algebraic constructions of codes using voltage graphs. (abstract)
Dec 9: Cancelled.

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