CMS/SMC
CanaDAM 2011
University of Victoria, May 31 - June 3, 2011 www.cms.math.ca//2011
Program        

Schedule - Contributed Talks

Please note that schedules are subject to change without notice, particularly changes within a given session.

Algebraic Graph Theory (CT12)
 
Thursday June 2
15:15 - 15:40 Satyanarayana Reddy Arikatla (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India), Relationships among some graph algebras on some graph classes, MacLaurin D114
15:45 - 16:10 Danielle Cox (Dalhousie University), Roots of Graph Polynomials, MacLaurin D114
16:15 - 16:40 Elissa Ross (York University), Finite motions from periodic frameworks with additional symmetry, MacLaurin D114
16:45 - 17:10 Robert Šámal (Charles University), Highly arc transitive digraphs, MacLaurin D114
 
Algorithms and Complexity I (CT3)
 
Tuesday May 31
15:15 - 15:40 Amir Hedayaty (Simon Fraser University), On the complexity of approximate counting of CSPs, MacLaurin D101
15:45 - 16:10 Khalegh Mamakani (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Canada), Generating All Simple Convexly-Drawable Polar-Symmetric 6-Venn Diagrams, MacLaurin D101
16:15 - 16:40 Johan Oppen (Molde University College), Connected sequences, MacLaurin D101
16:45 - 17:10 Marek Tesar (Charles University, Prague), Locally injective homomorphism to the simple Weight graphs, MacLaurin D101
17:15 - 17:40 Aaron Williams (Carleton University), New Constructions for Universal Cycles and de Bruijn Cycles, MacLaurin D101
 
Algorithms and Complexity II (CT13)
 
Thursday June 2
15:15 - 15:40 Kathie Cameron (Wilfrid Laurier University), Rainbow Matchings in Bipartite Graphs, MacLaurin D103
15:45 - 16:10 Christopher Duffy (University of Victoria), The Firefighter Problem - Weights and Sets, MacLaurin D103
16:15 - 16:40 Jessica Enright (University of Alberta), Set Representation Graph Games, MacLaurin D103
16:45 - 17:10 Elaine Eschen (West Virginia University), On deciding whether the distinguishing chromatic number of a graph is at most two, MacLaurin D103
17:15 - 17:40 Donovan Hare (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus), A Note on the Hardness of Graph Diameter Augmentation Problems, MacLaurin D103
 
Asymptotic Enumeration (CT8)
 
Wednesday June 1
15:15 - 15:40 Aubrey Blecher (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Compositions of positive integers n viewed as alternating sequences of increasing/decreasing partitions., MacLaurin D103
15:45 - 16:10 Samuel Johnson and Steve Melczer (Simon Fraser University), Asymptotic analysis of walks with small steps in the quarter plane., MacLaurin D103
16:15 - 16:40 David Laferrière (Carleton University), Asymptotics of Decomposable Combinatorial Structures with Components of Alg-Log Type, MacLaurin D103
16:45 - 17:10 Cristiane M. Sato (University of Waterloo), Asymptotic enumeration of sparse 2-connected graphs, MacLaurin D103
 
Broadcasting and Domination (CT14)
 
Friday June 3
10:10 - 10:35 Lino Demasi (Simon Fraser University), Domination in Plane Triangulations, MacLaurin D101
10:40 - 11:05 Hayk Grigoryan (Concordia University), On graphs with diametral broadcast time, MacLaurin D101
11:10 - 11:35 Karen Seyffarth (University of Calgary), The Dominating Graph, MacLaurin D101
11:40 - 12:05 Hocine Boumediene Merouane (University Saad Dahlab of Blida, Algeria), The dominator partition in hypercubes, MacLaurin D101
12:10 - 12:35 Scott Lunney (University of Victoria), Broadcasts and Domination in Trees, MacLaurin D101
 
Combinatorial Designs, Codes and Graph Factors (CT1)
 
Tuesday May 31
10:10 - 10:35 Atif Abueida (University of Dayton), The spectrum of non-polychromatic equitable edge colored Steiner Triple Systems, MacLaurin D101
10:40 - 11:05 Melissa Keranen (Michigan Technological University), GDDs with two groups and block size 6 with fixed block configuration, MacLaurin D101
11:10 - 11:35 Nidhi Sehgal (Auburn University), $6$-cycle system of the cartesian product $K_x \times K_y$ covering $2$-paths in $K_{x,y}$, MacLaurin D101
11:40 - 12:05 Padmapani Seneviratne (American University of Sharjah), Codes from multipartite graphs and permutation decoding, MacLaurin D101
12:10 - 12:35 China Venkaiah Vadlamudi (C R Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science), Sequentially Perfect 1-Factorization and Cycle Structure of Patterned Factorization of $K_{2^{n}}$, MacLaurin D101
 
Enumeration (CT4)
 
Tuesday May 31
15:15 - 15:40 Alejandro Erickson (University of Victoria), Enumerating Tatami Tilings, MacLaurin D114
15:45 - 16:10 Elizabeth McMahon (Lafayette College), Derangements of the facets of the $n$-cube, MacLaurin D114
16:15 - 16:40 Alois Panholzer (Vienna University of Technology), Some new results for deriving hook-length formulas for trees, MacLaurin D114
16:45 - 17:10 Jose Plinio Santos (UNICAMP-Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Bijections between lattice paths and plane partitions, MacLaurin D114
 
Extremal Combinatorics (CT5)
 
Tuesday May 31
15:15 - 15:40 Mahmud Akelbek (Weber State University), Various bounds on the scrambling index and the generalized scrambling index, MacLaurin D103
15:45 - 16:10 Sean McGuinness (Thompson Rivers University), Degree constrained subgraphs in a graph, MacLaurin D103
16:15 - 16:40 Mark Schurch (University of Victoria), On Graphs with Depression Three, MacLaurin D103
16:45 - 17:10 Ben Seamone (Carleton University), Variations of the 1,2,3-Conjecture, MacLaurin D103
17:15 - 17:40 Tamon Stephen (Simon Fraser University), A short proof that 4-prismatoids have width at most 4., MacLaurin D103
 
Graph Algorithms and Complexity (CT16)
 
Friday June 3
15:15 - 15:40 Steven Chaplick (University of Toronto), The Vertex Leafage of Chordal Graphs, MacLaurin D103
15:45 - 16:10 William Sean Kennedy (McGill), Finding a smallest odd hole in a claw-free graph using global structure, MacLaurin D103
16:15 - 16:40 Joseph Manning (University College Cork), Linear-Time Canonical Encoding of Plane Graphs, MacLaurin D103
16:45 - 17:10 R. Sritharan (The University of Dayton), Largest induced matching: computation and min-max relations, MacLaurin D103
 
Graph Games (CT9)
 
Wednesday June 1
15:15 - 15:40 Stephen Finbow (St Francis Xavier), Efficiency of Watchmen's Walks, MacLaurin D114
15:45 - 16:10 Shannon Fitzpatrick (University of Prince Edward Island), Copwin Edge Critical Graphs, MacLaurin D114
16:15 - 16:40 Dan Hefetz (Queen Mary University of London), Fast embedding of spanning trees in biased Maker-Breaker games, MacLaurin D114
16:45 - 17:10 Abbas Mehrabian (University of Waterloo), On a Generalization of Meyniel's Conjecture on the Cops and Robbers Game, MacLaurin D114
17:15 - 17:40 Suzanne Seager (Mount Saint Vincent University), Locating a Robber on a Graph, MacLaurin D114
 
Graph Theory I (CT6)
 
Wednesday June 1
10:10 - 10:35 Richard Brewster (Thompson Rivers University), Lexicographic products with high reconstruction number, MacLaurin D103
10:40 - 11:05 Dennis D.A. Epple (University of Victoria), Covering lexicographic products of graphs with independent sets and cliques, MacLaurin D103
11:10 - 11:35 Terry McKee (Wright State University), Graphs that have clique (partial) 2-trees, MacLaurin D103
11:40 - 12:05 Bode Michel (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg), Good edge labelings of graphs of average degree at most 3, MacLaurin D103
12:10 - 12:35 K. B. Reid (California State University San Marcos), Landau's Theorem Revisited Again, MacLaurin D103
 
Graph Theory II (CT15)
 
Friday June 3
10:10 - 10:35 Russell Campbell (University of Victoria), Reflexive Injective Oriented Colouring, MacLaurin D103
10:40 - 11:05 Andrzej Czygrinow (Arizona State University), Tiling in Bipartite Graphs, MacLaurin D103
11:10 - 11:35 Andrew D. King (Columbia University), Proving the Lovász-Plummer Conjecture, MacLaurin D103
11:40 - 12:05 Asiyeh Sanaei (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Constructions of 3-existentially closed graphs using graph operations, MacLaurin D103
12:10 - 12:35 Henry Martyn Mulder (Econometric Institute, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam), Axiomatic characterization of location functions, MacLaurin D103
 
Graph Theory: Colouring (CT2)
 
Tuesday May 31
10:10 - 10:35 Kailyn Young (University of Victoria), 2-dipath k-colourings, MacLaurin D103
10:40 - 11:05 Mark Kayll (University of Montana), Uniquely $D$-colourable digraphs with large girth, MacLaurin D103
11:10 - 11:35 Bernard Lidicky (Charles University), List coloring and crossings, MacLaurin D103
11:40 - 12:05 Ararat Harutyunyan (Simon Fraser University), Gallai's Theorem for List Coloring of Digraphs, MacLaurin D103
 
Graph Theory: Cycles (CT17)
 
Friday June 3
15:15 - 15:40 Alewyn Burger (Stellenbosch University), An infinite family of Planar Hypohamiltonian Oriented Graphs, MacLaurin D110
15:45 - 16:10 Daryl Funk (Simon Fraser University), On the hamiltonicity of line graphs of locally finite, 6-edge-connected graphs, MacLaurin D110
16:15 - 16:40 Bert Hartnell (Saint Mary's University), Decycling in the Cartesian Product, MacLaurin D110
16:45 - 17:10 Tomas Kaiser (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic), Covering a graph by forests and a matching, MacLaurin D110
17:15 - 17:40 Khaled Salem (The British University in Egypt), A characterization of 1-cycle resonant graphs among bipartite 2-connected plane graphs, MacLaurin D110
 
Graphs and Combinatorial Geometry (CT7)
 
Wednesday June 1
10:10 - 10:35 David Herscovici (Quinnipiac University), Optimal Pebbling in Hypercubes using Error-correcting codes, MacLaurin D101
10:40 - 11:05 Tony Nixon (Lancaster University), Combinatorial Rigidity on Surfaces, MacLaurin D101
11:10 - 11:35 David Richter (Western Michigan University), How to draw a 4-edge-colored graph, MacLaurin D101
11:40 - 12:05 Jacobus Swarts (Vancouver Island University), The $C_k$-extended Graft Construction, MacLaurin D101
 
Matrices and Sequences (CT10)
 
Thursday June 2
10:10 - 10:35 Richard Anstee (UBC), Forbidden Configurations: Progress towards a Conjecture, MacLaurin D101
10:40 - 11:05 Daniel Katz (Simon Fraser University), Cross-Correlations of $p$-ary Maximal-Length Sequences: the Few and the Rational, MacLaurin D101
11:10 - 11:35 Shahla Nasserasr (University of Regina), Totally Positive Shapes and TP$_k$-completable Patterns, MacLaurin D101
11:40 - 12:05 Murray Patterson (University of British Columbia), The Gapped Consecutive-Ones Property, MacLaurin D101
12:10 - 12:35 Miguel Raggi (UBC), Genetic Algorithms in Forbidden Configurations, MacLaurin D101
 
Random Structures (CT11)
 
Thursday June 2
10:10 - 10:35 Ross J. Kang (Durham University), Subset Glauber dynamics mixes rapidly on graphs of bounded tree-width., MacLaurin D103
10:40 - 11:05 Mitchel T. Keller (London School of Economics and Political Science), Linear Extension Diameter and Reversal Ratio, MacLaurin D103
11:10 - 11:35 Stephen J. Young (University of California, San Diego), Braess's Paradox in Sparse Random Graphs, MacLaurin D103

Event Sponsors

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