College of Engineering and Science

MIGHTY XLIX

MIGHTY XLIX

 

Mighty XLIX

MIdwest GrapH TheorY Conference
April 16 - 17, 2010

University of Detroit Mercy

 

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Detroit Mercy and the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Saginaw Valley State University are pleased to welcome MIGHTY XLIX to be held at the University of Detroit Mercy.

 

Invited Speaker: Ping Zhang (Western Michigan Univ.)

 

Contributed Talks:   

Talks will be 15 minutes long, plus a few minutes for questions. We welcome submissions on any topic in graph theory and discrete mathematics. Reviving an old MIGHTY tradition, we encourage talks on work-in-progress, as well as presentations of finished work.

Deadline for abstract submission: April 2, 2010.

Contact William Vautaw (wvautaw@svsu.edu) for more information and to submit your abstract.


Confirmed Speakers"

<pre>Jay Bagga, Ball State University
Smallest and largest cycles in the middle levels of a hypercube

Ryan Jones, Western Michigan University 
Color-Sensitive Checkerboards

Kyle Kolasinski, Western Michigan University 
Which Graphs are Modular Edge-Graceful?

Hao Li, West Virginia University
On 3-edge-connected Supereulerian Graphs

Ping Li, West Virginia University
Graphs and Binary matroids in which every circuit has the same length

Yanting Liang, West Virginia University
Some recent results on Mod (2p+1)-contractible graphs

Hong Liu, Illinois Institute of Technology
Dominating Sets in Triangulations of Surfaces

Terry McKee, Wright State University
Rethinking Graph Semivalidity

Zevi Miller (joint work with Tao Jiang and Dan Pritikin), Miami University
Bounds on Steiner Trees in the Hypercube

Darren Parker, Grand Valley State University
Helly and Radon Independence Under 2-Path Convexity in Multipartite Tournaments

Bryan  Phinezy, Western Michigan University 
Local Metric Sets in Graphs

Nathan Shank, Moravian College
Component Order Edge Connectivity for Graphs with a Fixed Size and Order

Matt Walsh, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne
Finding graphs with even spanning trees

Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University 
Reflections on Graph Colorings

Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
Minor-minimally 3-connected graphs and matroids



Equipment :

There will be a digital projector, as well as an overhead projector, and a whiteboard.

 

Organizers:

Lazaros Kikas

Jeffe Boats

William Vautaw

Garry Johns

Nart Shawash

 

Schedule:

Friday, April 16, 7:00pm-9:00pm at Lansing-Reilly Hall.

Lansing- Reilly is located on the McNichols just East of Livernois Ave


Saturday, April 17, 7:45am-6:00pm

Engeneering & Science Building, which is on the southeast corner of the McNichols campus. Driving Directions

 

Registration: As usual registration is free. However we ask that you register by email by April 10th. In the email please give 1) your name, 2) department and university and 3) whether you will attend the Friday night reception.

 

You can pick up registration materials Saturday morning.

There will be coffee in the morning, and coffee breaks later.

Saturday lunch: we'll be in the Eng&Sci Building ($10).

Saturday night: we will help organize groups for the Survivors dinner.

 

Accommodation:

 

Fairfield Inn 32800 Stephenson Highway Madison Heights, Michigan 48071. King or Doubles for $69.00 a night. Tel: 1-248-588-3388. (Map) Deadline for this special rate is April 1, 2010.

When making reservations

Use UDMD for Double

USE UDMK for Kings.

 (for more info ask Jeffe Boats)

 




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