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Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Mathematics Days 2008
May 9-10, 2008

Held at :
Herzberg Laboratories for Physics and Computer Science (HP) Macphail Room (HP 4351) 4th floor (Map of Carleton Campus )
Carleton University, Ottawa

Organizers:  

Brett Stevens (Carleton)

Qiang Wang (Carleton)
Registration on site
Fee $20 on-line to May 1, $25 on-site
(there is no refund for cancellations)
Students, postdocs, and invited speakers are fee exempt
Schedule Abstracts
Contributed Talks Participant List
Invited Speakers Directions to Carleton Accommodation - Ottawa

Since 2002, the Ottawa -- Carleton Discrete Mathematics Day has been held annually in the spring, alternating its location between Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. The meeting is an offspring of the Carleton Discrete Mathematics Days held in the past at Carleton University. (For more information on recent Discrete Mathematics Days please visit:
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/06-07/discrete_math/
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/05-06/discrete_math/
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/04-05/discrete_math/
http://www.math.carleton.ca/~daniel/dmd04.html.

Traditionally, the meeting consists of four one-hour invited talks presented in a single day, a Saturday. In addition, a fifth speaker is invited to give a colloquium talk in the Ottawa -- Carleton Institute of Mathematics and Statistics on the preceding Friday afternoon. The invited speakers, known for their eloquence of presentation and excellence in research, are chosen carefully to cover a broad range of topics and aspects of discrete mathematics. The Friday colloquium talk is addressed to a general audience of mathematicians.

The objective of the meeting is to gather researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from the Ontario/Quebec area working in various fields of discrete mathematics in order to stimulate research collaboration in this vibrant interdisciplinary area. This year's speakers for the Discrete Mathematics Day lead research in the areas of graph theory, combinatorial structures, combinatorial enumeration, and algorithms. They have been involved in theoretical, applied, and algorithmic aspects of discrete mathematics.

The Discrete Math Workshop will run for 2 days this year, Friday (May 9) and Saturday (May 10), and will include five one-hour invited talks by the above speakers as well as contributed talks.

Please note that another workshop in graph theory http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/07-08/graph_theory/ will be also held at Carleton University from May 11 to May 13.

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

The title and the abstract of contributed talks should be sent to Steven Wang at wang@math.carleton.ca before April 28, 2008.

INVITED SPEAKERS

David Bremner, Technische Universität München
The duality between maximal separation and minimal distance

Ian Goulden, University of Waterloo
Maps and Branched Covers - Combinatorics, Geometry and Physics

Ortrud Oellermann, University of Winnipeg
Graph Classes Characterized by Local Convexities

Bruce Shepherd, McGill University
Robust Optimization of Networks

Qing Xiang, University of Deleware
Symplectic analogues of Hamada's Formula

SCHEDULE

Herzberg Laboratories for Physics and Computer Science (HP)

The room is at the fourth floor, Macphail Room (HP 4351)

Friday May 9

9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 10:30 Ortrud R. Oellermann, University of Winnipeg
Graph Classes Characterized by Local Convexities
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Andrea Burgess, University of Ottawa
Closed trail decompositions of complete equipartite graphs
11:30 - 12:00 Shonda Gosselin, University of Ottawa
Self-complementary uniform hypergraphs
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 - 2:30 Karen Meagher, University of Regina
A Multi-Partite Version of the Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem
2:30 - 3:00 Sebastian Raaphorst, University of Toronto
A conjecture for anti-pasch maximum Partial Steiner Triple Systems
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 Qing Xiang, University of Deleware
Symplectic analogues of Hamada’s Formula
5:00 Reception

Saturday May 10

9:30 - 10:30 Bruce Shepherd, McGill University
Robust Optimization of Networks
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 David Bremner, Technische University at Munchen
The duality between maximal separation and minimal distance
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:00 Ian Goulden, University of Waterloo
Maps and Branched Covers - Combinatorics, Geometry and Physics
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00 Jane Gao, University of Waterloo
Connectivity of random regular graphs generated by the pegging algorithm
4:00 - 4:30 Mateja Sajna, University of Ottawa
Computing the probabilistic transitive closure of a bipolar weighted digraph

 

Participant List

Fullname University Name
Al-Bashabsheh, Ali Carleton University
Bailey, Robert Carleton University
Baker, Andrew University of Guelph
Boyd, Sylvia University of Ottawa
Bremner, David University of New Brunswick
Burgess, Andrea University of Ottawa
Cameron, Amy University of Ottawa
Epple, Dennis D.A. University of Victoria
Francetic, Nevena University of Toronto
Gao, Pu University of Waterloo
Gosselin, Shonda University of Ottawa
Goulden, Ian University of Waterloo
Haghighi, Maryam University of Ottawa
Harvey, Kyle Carleton University
Kennedy, William McGill University
Li, Zhentao McGill University
Meagher, Karen University of Regina
Naserasr, Reza Carleton University
Niesink, Patrick University of Ottawa
Oellermann, Ortrud University of Winnipeg
Raaphorst, Sebastian  
Raaphorst, Sebastian University of Toronto
Sajna, Mateja University of Ottawa
Shepherd, Bruce McGill University
Stevens, Brett Carleton University
Thomson, David Carleton University
Wang, Qiang Steven Carleton University
Xiang, Qing University of Delaware
Zhang, Cun-Quan West Virginia University
To Be Confirmed
Kumar, Reji University of Victoria
Le, Anh Vinh Harvard University

 

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