Alberta-Montana Combinatorics &
Algorithms Days at BIRS   (2022)

Banff's Mt. Rundle from a canoe on Lower Vermilion Lake (W. Holzmann)        

Place & Date

BIRS, Banff, Alberta, Friday June 3 - Sunday June 5, 2022

Sponsors

Sponsors are the Banff International Research Station, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and University of Lethbridge.

Invited speakers

Location & Registration

All events will be held at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Participation is by invitation only. BIRS should have sent emails with all relevant information to participants.

Program

All talks are in room TCPL 201. The coffee breaks will held in the TCPL Foyer. Meals are provided by the workshop at the usual venue for these in the Vistas Dining Room located on the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.

For a printable version of the program see the first page of the Abstracts.

The slides of the talks are posted here.

Friday June 3Event
by eveningCheck-in & Registration at the front desk in the Professional Development Centre
eveningInformal gathering

Saturday June 4Speaker or EventTitle & Abstract
8:25-8:30Welcome address by BIRS staff
8:30-9:00Ting Han Wei, University of AlbertaFrom Playing to Solving Go
9:00-9:30Thomas Pender, University of LethbridgeBalancedly Splittable Orthogonal Designs
9:30-10:00Anastasia Halfpap, University of MontanaPositive co-degree and unusual stability
10:00-10:30Coffee break
10:30-11:30Mark Kayll, University of MontanaKE and Egerváry graphs: a stability structure graph decomposition
11:30-12:00Kris Vasudevan, University of CalgarySuccess and challenges with the use of graph theory in brain disorder studies: Seeking answers
12:00-1:15pmLunch
1:15-1:30Group Photo in TCPL Foyer near the talk venue (or outside weather permitting)
1:30-2:30Joy Morris, University of LethbridgeCop Numbers of Generalised Petersen Graphs
2:30-3:00Cory Palmer, University of MontanaAt most 3.55n stable matchings
3:00-3:30Coffee Break
3:30-4:00Bobby Miraftab, University of LethbridgeMedian-decompositions and their applications
4:00-5:00Micheal Cavers, University of CalgaryReconfiguring vertex colourings of graphs
5:00-5:30Vlad Zaitsev, University of LethbridgeA class of optimal constant weight ternary codes
5:30-6:00Ramin Mousavi, University of AlbertaSome Advances in the Planar Directed Steiner Tree Problem
6:00-7:30Dinner
7:30-8:30Mathematics Education in Canada, presented by Rob Craigen and followed by discussion

Sunday June 5Speaker or EventTitle & Abstract
8:30-9:00Rob Craigen, University of ManitobaCritical cases of circulant partial Hadamard matrices
9:00-10:00Ryan Hayward, University of AlbertaHex problems
10:00-10:30Coffee break (note: room check out is by 11:00)
10:30-11:30Zachary Friggstad, University of AlbertaPrize-Collecting Walks and Branchings in Directed Graphs
11:30-12:00Davoud Abdi, University of CalgarySiblings of Countable NE-free Posets
12:05pmLunch         

Organizing Committee & Contacts

The organizing committee is: If you have questions please send an e-mail to Hadi Kharaghani at: kharaghani at uleth dot ca

Photos

The group photo at BIRS website (local copy here).

Last update: 2022 June 1