Advances in Graph and Matroid Theory -- Sunday

Advances in Graph and Matroid Theory

December 13-16, 2003

Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University

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 2: Sunday, December 14, 2003

8:30 - 9:00 am	EA Lobby	Registration
9:00 - 9:50 am	EA 160	Reinhard Diestel	On Infinite Cycles in Graphs -- or How to Make Graph Homology Interesting
10:00 - 10:50 am	EA 160	Bruce Richter	Spanning Trees and Cycle Spaces in Topological Spaces
11:00 - 11:20 am	EA Lobby	Coffee
11:30 am - 12:20 pm	EA 160	Eiichi Bannai	Various Kinds of Tight Designs and their Existence Problems
12:30 - 2:20 pm	Lunch
2:30 - 3:20 pm	EA 160	Geoff Whittle	Inequivalent Representations of Matroids
3:30 - 3:50 pm	EA 160	Gelasio Salazar	Recent Progress on Turan's Brickyard Problem: Improved Lower Bounds for the Crossing Numbers of $K_{m,n}$ and $K_{n}$
3:30 - 3:50 pm	EA 170	Joe Bonin	Multi-Path Matroids
4:00 - 4:20 pm	EA 160	Chris Stephens (Student)	The Nonorientable Genus of Complete Tripartite Graphs: The Basis Cases
4:00 - 4:20 pm	EA 170	Henry Suters (Student)	From RS Posets to NP-Completeness: Adventures in Fixed Parameter Tractibility
4:30 - 4:50 pm	EA Lobby	Coffee
5:00 - 5:20 pm	EA 160	Xiaoya Zha	The Nonorientable Genus of Complete Tripartite Graphs: Counterexamples and Induction step
5:00 - 5:20 pm	EA 170	Mike Albertson	Coloring Vertices and Faces of Locally Planar Graphs
5:30 - 5:50 pm	EA 160	Mark Ellingham	The Orientable Genus of Complete Tripartite Graphs
5:30 - 5:50 pm	EA 170	Yared Nigussie	Reformulation of Hadwiger's Conjecture

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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