Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Spring 2013

Seminars will take place on Fridays 4:45 - 5:45 pm in Ewing 336.
For more information, contact our seminar coordinator Sebastian Cioaba


Friday February 15 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
Jiyou Li, Shanghai JiaoTong University and University of Delaware
Title: Subsets counting problem and its applications
Tuesday February 19 12:30 - 1:30 EWG 336
Dan Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: Coloring claw-free graphs with Δ-1 colors
Friday March 1 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
James Alexander, University of Delaware
Title: Independent sets in graphs with given minimum degree
Friday March 8 2:00 - 2:40 PRN 325
Wiseley Wong, University of Delaware
Title: Ph.D. Defense: Spanning Trees, Toughness, and Eigenvalues of Regular Graphs
Friday March 15 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
Jason Williford, University of Wyoming
Title: Families of Graphs Defined from Lie Algebras
Tuesday March 19 12:30 - 1:30 EWG 336
Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
Title: Diamond-free families in the Boolean lattice
Friday April 5 2:00 - 3:00 PRN 238
Martin Furer, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Combinatorial Methods for the Graph Isomorphism Problem
Friday April 12 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
Patrick Devlin, Rutgers University
Title: Integer Subsets with High Volume and Low Perimeter
Friday April 19 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
Idris Mercer, University of Delaware
Title: Newman polynomials not vanishing on the unit circle
Friday April 26 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
Chris Castillo, University of Delaware
Title: A new method for constructing groups of permutation polynomials
Friday May 3 4:45 - 5:45 EWG 336
Weigiang Li, University of Delaware
Title: Extendability of Distance Regular Graphs
Friday May 10 2:00 - 3:00 EWG 336
Steven Senger, University of Delaware
Title: A multi-scale approach to the Erd\H{o}s-Falconer type single distance problems.

Previous semesters


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