Speaker: Gunjan Sharma, Illinois Institute of Technology Title: Almost-Perfect Matchings in Trees Abstract: The Hosoya index of a graph is the total number of matchings in it and is a long-studied...
Speaker: Ruth Luo, University of South Carolina Title: Minimum Degree Conditions Ensuring the Existence of Long Cycles in Hypergraphs Abstract: Dirac proved that every \(n\)-vertex graph with minimum...
Speaker: Farid Aliniaeifard, University of British Columbia Title: Generalized Chromatic Functions Abstract: We define vertex-colourings for edge-coloured digraphs, which unify the theory of $P$...
Speaker: Kenneth Barrese, Brescia University Title: Factoring Rook Polynomials Abstract: Rook theory is a branch of mathematics which considers how many ways you can put rooks on a board so that no...
Speaker: Emily Barnard, DePaul University, Title: Dynamics and Topology of Lattice Posets Related to the Weak Order Abstract: In this talk, I will highlight results from three recent research projects...
Speaker: Dheer Desai, University of Wyoming Title: Spectral Turán Problems on Trees and Even Cycles Abstract: In this talk, we discuss some recent progress with the spectral analogue of a few Turán...
Speaker: John Engbers, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Title: Extremal Questions for Vertex Colorings of Graphs Abstract: For graphs \(G\) and \(H\), an \(H\)-coloring of \(G\) is a map from the...
Speaker: Douglas B. West, Zhejiang Normal University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Title: Cycles in Color-Critical Graphs Abstract: Tuza [1992] proved that a graph \(G\) having no cycles...
Speaker: Xuding Zhu, Zhejiang Normal University Title: List version of 1-2-3 conjecture Abstract: The well-known 1-2-3 Conjecture by Karonski, Luczak and Thomason states that the edges of any...
Speaker: Samantha Dahlberg, Illinois Institute of Technology Title: Chromatic Symmetric Functions: An introduction and the property of e-positivity Abstract: Richard Stanley introduced the chromatic...
