Program for MIGHTY XXX

Ball State University Alumni Center

Friday, October 23, 1998

Reception, 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 24, 1998

(Please note: Talks are 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions and transition)

8:00 am Coffee and Registration
8:40 am Welcome: Dean Ronald Johnstone, College of Sciences and Humanities
8:50 am Tibor Szabo, "Norm-graphs: Variations and Applications"
9:10 am Andre Kundgen, "Turan Problems for Weighted Graphs"
9:30 am Mike Plantholt, "The Overfull Conjecture for Graphs with High Minimum Degree"
9:50 am Doug West, "Coloring Trees with Minimum Sum of Colors"
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:25 am Main Speaker: Henda Swart, "Multipartite Ramsey Numbers"
11:05 am Maria Axenovich, "The Generalized Ramsey Problem"
11:25 am Tao Jiang, "Flashes and Rainbows-A Problem in Ramsey Theory"
11:45 am Gary Chartrand, "The Geodetic Number of an Oriented Graph"
12 noon Lunch Break
1:45 p.m. Ping Zhang, "On the Planarity of Jump Graphs"
2:05 p.m. Terry McKee, "Induced Cycle Structure and Outerplanarity"
2:25 p.m. Hong-Jian Lai, "Graph Homomorphism into an Odd Cycle"
2:45 p.m. Badri Varma, "Line Completion Number of a Graph: Some New Results"
3:00 p.m. Tea Break
3:20 p.m. Roger Eggleton, "Subgraphs of Moser and Moser Type in Prime Distance Graphs"
3:40 p.m. Eddie Cheng, "An Attractive Variation of Graphs Generated by Stars: Graphs Generated by Split-stars"
4:00 p.m. Zoltan Furedi, "Lotto, Football, and Other Covering Radius Problems"
4:20 p.m. David Erwin, "The Decomposition Dimension of Graphs"
4:40 p.m. Ya-Chen Chen, "Kneser Graphs Are Hamiltonian for n at least 3k"
5:30 p.m. Survivors' Dinner