Discrete Mathematics and Optimization Seminar

Fall Term Schedule 2003

September 29th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205
 Adrian Bondy
Université Lyon I and CNRS
Colourings and cycle covers in digraphs

October 6th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205
Frederic Havet
CNRS and INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Median order in tournaments

October 20th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205
Nikolaos Fountoulakis
McGill University
The mixing time of a random walk on a random graph

October 27th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205
Caterina De Simone
CNR Rome
Edge colouring

November 10th
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205
Peter McNamara
UQAM
Questions of Schur-Positivity

POSTPONED
To be rescheduled.


Bruce Shepherd
Bell Labs
Demand-packing problems and maximum revenue bandwidth allocation

December 1st
Monday, 4.30pm
Burnside 1205
Peter Keevash
Princeton
The exact Turán number of the Fano plane


Previous Seminars
Winter 2003
Fall 2002
Winter 2002
See also the McGill Algorithms Seminar.



Information

This seminar is jointly organised by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the School of Computer Science.
For information contact:
Seminar Coordinator : Adrian Vetta
The other organisers are : D. Avis (CS), W. Brown (Math), D. Bryant (Math/CS), L. Devroye (CS), B. Reed (CS), V. Rosta (Math), G. Toussaint (CS), and S. Whitesides (CS).