Speaker: Gunjan Sharma, Illinois Institute of Technology Title: Extremal and Enumerative Problems on DP-Coloring of Graphs Abstract: DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) introduced by...
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...
Speaker: Christian Tomlins, Ph.D. candidate, Illinois Institute of Technology Title: Symmetry Breaking with Proper List Colorings Abstract: A coloring of a graph is said to be distinguishing if it...
Speaker: Stephanie van Willigenburg, University of British Colombia Title: The (3+1)-Free Conjecture of Chromatic Symmetric Functions Abstract: The chromatic symmetric function, dating from 1995, is a...
Speaker: Anton Bernshteyn, Georgia Institute of Technology Title: Weak Degeneracy of Graphs Abstract: Motivated by the study of greedy algorithms for graph coloring, we introduce a new graph parameter...
Speaker: Kevin Milans, West Virginia University Title: Ordered Turan Numbers Abstract: An ordered hypergraph $G$ is a hypergraph whose vertices are linearly ordered. The ordered Turan Number of an $r$...
Speaker: Logan Crew, University of Waterloo Title: The Chromatic Symmetric Function: A Refinement of the Chromatic Polynomial Abstract: The chromatic symmetric function X_G, introduced by Richard...
Speaker: Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University Title: The Degenerate Crossing Number and Higher-Genus Embeddings Abstract: Can we quantify how much topology a graph embedded in a surface needs to use? On...
Speaker: Jeff Mudrock, College of Lake County Title: On Chromatic Polynomials, List Color Functions, and DP Color Functions Abstract: Can we quantify how much topology a graph embedded in a surface...
Speaker: Iyad Kanj, DePaul University Title: Covering Segments with Unit Intervals Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the problem of covering a set of segments on a line with the minimum number...
