MIGHTY (MIdwest GrapH TheorY) Conference XXXIV

Saturday, 13th October 2001

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Oakland University

Rochester, Michigan

  • Registration information: Registration is free. If you are interested in attending the conference, please email Eddie Cheng ( echeng@oakland.edu ), so that we can send you updates. Please include the probability of your attendance.

  • Registration will be in 376 SEB and the talks will be in 372 SEB. A campus map is available here. The main road on the left on the map is Squirrel Road, travel south (towards the bottom of the map), pass University Drive and turn left on Pioneer Drive using the left turn only lane (the third one after University Drive), pass Meadow Brook Road and turn left on Library Drive and park on Lot 38 which is to the left of SEB, our Science and Engineering Building.

  • The traditional reception is planned for the evening before (12th October 2001). It will be at Professor Grossman's house. The reception starts at 8:00pm. Click here for directions.

  • The traditional survivors' dinner will occur the evening of 13th October, should anyone survive.

  • Local information: Oakland University is located in the Rochester/Auburn Hills area of Oakland County, Michigan, in the Detroit metropolitan area. Numerous attractions can be found by selecting the links in this paragraph, including Excite Travel and the Metropolitan Detroit Convention & Visitors Bureau.

  • Hotel Information: All the hotels are located on Opdyke Road, Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326 approximately 2.0 miles from OU. (Directions: From Opdyke, turn east at University to reach OU. Click here for a map. Parking is available free on campus.)

    Schedule

    All talks are 20 minutes long plus 5 minutes for questions. schedule and abstract .

  • 08:00 - 08:40: Registration
  • 08:40 - 09:00: Welcome Picture of chair Marc Lipman , Picture of dean Dave Downing
  • 09:00 - 09:25: Maximal Independent Sets In Graphs With At Most r Cycles, Bruce Sagan (Michigan State University)
  • 09:25 - 09:50: Meets and joins in the poset of graphs of order n, Roger Eggleton (Illinois State University) picture
  • 09:50 - 10:15: Spreading Multiple Team Meetings In A Sports Schedule, Mike Plantholt (Illinois State University) picture
  • 10:15 - 10:30: Break
  • 10:30 - 10:55: Chordally Signed Graphs, Terry McKee (Wright State University) picture
  • 10:55 - 11:20: Matroids coming from graphs and linear transformations, Dan Slilaty (Wright State University) picture
  • 11:20 - 11:45: Multidesigns of the complete graph, Atif Abueida (University of Dayton) picture
  • 11:45 - 13:30: Lunch
  • 13:30 - 13:55: Nowhere zero 4-flows in Regular Matroids, Hong-Jian Lai (West Virginia University) picture
  • 13:55 - 14:20: Supereulerian planar graphs, Mingquan Zhan (West Virginia University) picture
  • 14:20 - 14:45: An s-Hamiltonian Line Graph Problem, ZhiHong Chen (Butler University) picture
  • 14:45 - 15:10: A Note on Group Coloring, Gexin Yu (West Virginia University) picture
  • 15:10 - 15:30: Break
  • 15:30 - 15:55: Terrain Model Acquisition by Robot Teams, Nachimuthu Manickam (DePauw University) picture
  • 15:55 - 16:20: Bipartite Rainbow Ramsey Numbers, Linda Eroh (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
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  • 16:20 - 16:45: Triangle-Free Regular Graphs as an Extremal Family, Kenneth J. Roblee (Youngstown State University)
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  • 16:45 - 17:10: Some New Results in Segment Endpoint Visibility Graphs, Jay Bagga (Ball State University)
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  • 17:10 - 17:35: A Disjoint Path Problem for the Alternating Group Graph, Lazaros Kikas (Oakland University)
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    Name of the hotels Phone
    Holiday Inn, 1500 Opdyke 248-373-4550
    Hampton Inn, 1461 Opdyke 248-370-0044
    Courtyard by Marriott, 1296 Opdyke 248-373-4100 or 800-321-2211
    Motel 6 , 1471 Opdyke 248-373-8440 or 800-466-8356
    Fairfield Inn , 1294 Opdyke 248-373-2228 or 800-228-2800
    Amerisuites , 1545 Opdyke 248-475-9393 or 800-833-1516
    Candlewood Motel, 1650 Opdyke 248-373-3342

  • Organizing Committee: Eddie Cheng (Co-chair) echeng@oakland.edu , Curt Chipman chipman@oakland.edu , Jerry Grossman grossman@oakland.edu , Marc Lipman (Co-chair) lipman@oakland.edu , Lazaros Kikas lkikas@oakland.edu , and Serge Kruk kruk@oakland.edu .

  • MIGHTY history and MIGHTY homepage: For a history of the conference, please see MIGHTY
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  • Additional Information:

  • Anyone interested in further information should send name, institution, email address and postal address to the organizers by email or snail-mail.

  • Conference Web Page: http://www.math.oakland.edu/mighty01.html

  • Conference Postal Address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309-4485 USA. Tel: 248-370-3426

  • Last updated on 15th October, 2001