Advances in Graph and Matroid Theory

December 13-16, 2003

Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University

Robertson



Conference Information
List of Speakers and Participants
Lodging for Participants
Tentative Schedule
Sat. Dec 13
Sun. Dec 14
Mon. Dec 15
Tues. Dec 16




Day 1:  Saturday,   December 13, 2003

8:30 - 9:00 am
EA Lobby
Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:50 am
EA 160
Paul Seymour
The Structure of Clawfree Graphs, I
10:00 - 10:50 am
EA 160
Maria Chudnovsky
The Structure of Clawfree Graphs, II
11:00 - 11:20 am
EA Lobby
Coffee

11:30 am - 12:20 pm
EA 160
Bojan Mohar
Unavoidable Minors in Large Graphs
12:30 - 2:20 pm
Lunch


2:30 - 3:20 pm
EA 160
Mike Plummer
Some Recent Results in Three Areas of Matching Theory
3:30 - 3:50 pm
EA 160
Kiran Chilakamarri
A Graph Theoretic Model of Material Microstructure
EA 170
Guoli Ding
Some Results on Antichains
4:00 - 4:20 pm
EA 160
Jozsef Balogh
Covering Planar Graphs with Forests
EA 170
Sang-il Oum (Student)
Approximating Clique-width in O(n^9 log(n)) Time
4:30 - 4:50 pm
EA Lobby
Coffee

5:00 - 5:20 pm
EA 160
John Maharry
K_{a,k} Minors in Unimaginably Large Graphs
EA 170
Petr Hlineny
Matroid Tree-Width
5:30 - 6:10 pm
EA 160
Joan Hutchinson
Extending Precolorings of Subgraphs of Locally Planar Graphs
EA 170
Bert Gerards
Excluding a Planar Graph from Binary matroids
6:30-9:00pm
Dinner
China Dynasty
1677 West Lane Avenue Phone: 486-7126



Conference Information
List of Speakers and Participants
Lodging for Participants
Tentative Schedule
Sat. Dec 13
Sun. Dec 14
Mon. Dec 15
Tues. Dec 16





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