Discrete Mathematics Seminar Schedule Spring 1998

Unless otherwise noted, talks will take place Wednesdays at 4 pm in room 436 Ewing Hall.
For more information, contact our seminar coordinator.

Wednesday, Feb. 18
Speaker: Rob Hochberg, University of Delaware
Title: Unit Distance Graphs

Wednesday, Feb. 25
Speaker: Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
Title: Certain Families of Algebraically Defined Graphs

Wednesday, Mar. 4
Speaker: Craig Culbert, University of Delaware
Title: The Probabilistic Method

Wednesday, Mar. 11
Speaker: Keith Mellinger, University of Delaware
Title: Using Designs to Describe Mathieu Groups

Wednesday, Mar. 18
Speaker: Jeremy Dover, North Dakota State University
Title: Semiovals in Finite Projective Planes

Wednesday, Mar. 25
Speaker: Tatyana Turova, Lund University (Sweden)
Title: Graph Structure of the Serial Ranks

Wednesday, Apr. 1
Speaker: Qing Xiang,University of Delaware
Title: Jacobi Sums and 2-Ranks of Cyclic Difference Sets

Wednesday, Apr. 8 * * * SPRING BREAK * * *

Wednesday, Apr. 15
No seminar

Wednesday, Apr. 22
Speaker: Julia Brown, York University (Canada)
Title: A remark on a construction of Grundhöfer

Wednesday, Apr. 29
Speaker: Hisa Tsutsui, Millersville University
Title: An Introduction and Recent Progress in Fully Prime Rings

Friday, May 1, 2:30 pm, Room 210 Ewing Hall * * * Note day, time, and location!
Speaker: Gyula O. H. Katona, Director, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Title: A Design Type Result Via Hamiltonian Cycles

Wednesday, May 6
Speaker: Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
Title: Algebraically Defined Graphs and the Decompositions of K_{n,n} and K_n

Wednesday, May 13
Speaker: Arrigo Bonisoli, Universita della Basilicata (Italy)
Title: The Uniqueness of the Small Mathieu Groups Revisited

Wednesday, May 20
Speaker: Rodica Simeon, George Washington University
Title: Some combinatorial aspects of symmetric group actions on posets

Monday, June 1, Room 436 Ewing Hall * * * Note date and times below!
10 am
Speaker: Antonello Cossidente, Universita della Basilicata (Italy)
Title: The isomorphism Sp(4,q) onto O(5,q), q even, and some cap constructions

3 pm
Speaker: Gabor Korchmaros, Universita della Basilicata (Italy)
Title: Ovals in finite projective planes

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