11th Cumberland Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Computing

Schedule of Talks

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Thursday May 14
TIME SPEAKER TITLE
11:30 - 1:00 Registration Culp Center
12:00 - 12:10 Dean of Arts and Sciences
East Tennessee State University
Introduction and Welcome
12:10 - 12:30 Warren Shreve
North Dakota State University
Graphic Sequences and Repetition Subsequences
12:35 - 12:55 Frances Van Scoy
West Virginia University
Broadcasting in Dynamically Oriented Paths
1:00 - 1:20 Niall Graham
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Counting Self-avoiding Walks on Grids
1:25 - 1:45 Terry McKee
Wright State University
New Characterizations of Strongly Chordal Graphs
1:45 - 2:00 BREAK
2:00 - 3:00 Fred Roberts
Rutgers University
On the Median Procedure
3:00 - 3:10 BREAK
3:10 - 3:30 Kevin Phelps
Auburn University
Combinatorics of Perfect Codes
3:35 - 3:55 Dean Hoffman
Auburn University
On the Trade Spectra of Complete Partite Graphs
4:00 - 4:20 Pete Johnson
Auburn University
Relations among some Fractional Chromatic Graph Parameters
4:25 - 4:45 Charlie Cooke
Old Dominion University
Parameter Sequences Which Guarantee Nonexistence of Generalized Hadamard Matrices $GH(g, \Lambda_k)$ Over Abelian Group G
4:50 - 5:10 Nawarat Ananchuen
Silpakorn University, Thailand
On Minimum Degree of Strongly k-Extendable Graphs
5:15 - 5:35 Stanislaw Radziszowski
Rochester Institute of Technology
Computation of the Folkman Number F(3,3;5)
5:40 - 6:00 Allison Wolf
Emory University
$\chi-$Binding Functions on Graphs Determined by Forbidden Subgraphs
Friday May 15
TIME SPEAKER TITLE
8:00 - 9:30 Registration and Refreshments Culp Center
8:10 - 8:30 Matt Scobee
University of Louisville
A Characterization of the Orientations of Ternary Matroids
8:35 - 8:55 Nick Zhao On the Edge Reconstruction of Graphs Embedded in Surfaces
9:00 - 9:20 Ralph Faudree
University of Memphis
$r(C_5,C_5,C_5) = 17$
9:25 - 9:45 Guantao Chen
Georgia State University
Partitioning Vertices of a Graph into Disjoint Paths
9:50 - 10:10 Andre Kezdy
University of Louisville
Even Pairs in Diamond-Free Graphs
10:15 - 10:35 Jean Dunbar
Converse College
The Path(ological) Partition Conjecture
10:40 - 11:00 Carl Lee
University of Kentucky
Capacitated Monge Sequences
11:05 - 11:25 E. J. Cockayne
University of Victoria
Generalized Irredundance: Hereditary Properties and Ramsey Numbers
11:30 - 11:50 Doug Rall
Furman University
Acyclic Domination Numbers and Acyclic Irredundance Numbers
11:50 - 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 1:50 Ben Phillips
East Tennessee State University
Generalized Vertex Critical Domination
1:55 - 2:15 Gayla Domke
Georgia State University
Gallai-type Theorems for Strong and Weak Domination Parameters
2:15 - 2:35 Johannes Hattingh
Georgia State University
On Weak Domination in Graphs II
2:35 - 2:45 BREAK
2:45 - 3:45 Christina Mynhardt
University of South Africa
A Characterization of $(\gamma, i)-$Trees
3:50 - 4:10 BREAK
4:15 - 4:35 Renn Laskar
Clemson University
Rankings of Graphs
4:40 - 5:00 Eric Trees
University of Alabama in Huntsville
The Matrix Partition LP-Theorem
5:05 - 5:25 Saad El-Zanati
Illinois State University
On Graphs with Strong $\alpha-$Valuations
6:00 Wine and Cheese
Saturday May 16
TIME SPEAKER TITLE
8:15 - 9:15 Registration and Refreshments Culp Center
8:35 - 8:55 Ralph Stanton
University of Manitoba
Minimal Pairwise-Balanced Designs with Pair Count Two
9:00 - 9:20 Dwight Duffus
Emory University
Set Systems and Distributive Lattices
9:25 - 9:45 Jill Faudree
Emory University
Hamiltonicity, $2-$Factors, and $k-$Cycles
9:50 - 10:10 Ron Gould
Emory University
$k-$Ordered Graphs
10:15 - 10:35 Mike Plummer
Vanderbilt University
Restricted Matching Extension in Planar Graphs
10:40 - 11:00 W. D. Wallis
Southern Illinois University
Where do all the One-Factorizations Come From?
11:05 - 11:25 Yubao Guo
University of Aachen, Germany
Complementary Cycles Containing Prescribed Vertices in Tournaments
11:25 - 11:35 BREAK
11:35 - 12:35 Michael Henning
University of Natal
Bounds on Domination Parameters
12:35 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 2:20 Mark Ginn
Austin Peay State University
Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Graph Coloring
2:25 - 2:45 Fred Buckley
Baruch College (CUNY)
Distance and Graph Coloring
2:50 - 3:10 Bruce Landman
University of NC at Greensboro
Some van der Waerden-like Functions
3:15 - 3:35 Jennifer Quinn
Occidental College
Fibonacci and Lucas Identities through Colored Tilings
3:40 - 4:00 Tristan Denley
University of Mississippi
On Arithmetic Progressions of Cycles in Graphs
4:05 - 4:25 Wilfried Imrich
Syracuse University
Median Graphs and Triangle Free Graphs
4:30- 4:50 Brad Dyer
East Tennessee State University
Algorithm for Optimal Triangulations and Implementation in MatLab

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