Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Spring 2012

For more information, contact our seminar coordinator Sebastian Cioaba


Tuesday February 14, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
Title: Mathematics of Herbert S. Wilf (1931 -- 2012)
Tuesday February 21, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Steven Senger, University of Delaware
Title: The Unit Distance Problem
Tuesday February 28, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Michael E. Picollelli, University of Delaware
Title: Recent results on H-free processes
Tuesday March 6, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Bobby Demarco, Rutgers University
Title: TBA
Tuesday March 13, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester
Title: TBA
Tuesday March 20, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Bryan Petrak, University of Delaware
Title: TBA
Friday April 27, 2012 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
Shaun Fallat, University of Regina, Canada
Title: TBA
Tuesday May 1, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Keith Mellinger, University of Mary Washington
Title: TBA
Tuesday May 8, 2012 5:00 - 6:00 EWG 336
Anna Pun, University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBA

Fall 2011


Tuesday September 6, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Steven Senger, University of Delaware
Title: On the multiplicative structure of an additively shifted product set
Tuesday September 13, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Alex Burstein, Howard University
Title: Patterns in Permutations
Tuesday September 20, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Bryan Petrak, University of Delaware
Title: Subplanes of order 3 in Figueroa planes of odd order
Tuesday September 27, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Idris Mercer, University of Delaware
Title: Zero-one polynomials, reducibility, and roots on the unit circle
Tuesday October 4, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Chris Castillo, University of Delaware
Title: An Explicit Construction of Ramanujan Graphs
Tuesday October 11, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Peter Sin, University of Florida
Title: Self-Extensions of Standard modules for some linear groups over integer rings
Tuesday October 18, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Brian Kronenthal, University of Delaware
Title: On the Puzzling Properties of Quadratic Forms
Tuesday October 25, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 GOR 318
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and the Institute of Advances Studies, Princeton
Title: The chromatic number of random Cayley graphs
Tuesday November 1, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Natalie Mullin, University of Waterloo
Title: Pseudocyclic Association Schemes
Tuesday November 8, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Peter Vandendriessche, Ghent University, Belgium
Title: Minihypers in PG(t,q)
Tuesday November 15, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Wiseley Wong, University of Delaware
Title: Edge-disjoint spanning trees and eigenvalues of regular graphs
Thursday December 1, 2011 3:45 - 4:45 EWG 336
Penny Haxell, University of Waterloo, Canada
Title: Ryser's Conjecture and other packing and covering problems

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