Sixth Combinatorics Day at the University of Lethbridge
 
 
Place and Date
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Saturday March 28, 2009
 
Sponsors
Sponsors are the
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the University of Lethbridge.
 
Invited speakers
Invited speakers are:
 
Support
A limited amount of funding is available still for travel assistance for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Please contact Prof. Kharaghani by e-mail at the address below as soon as possible.
 
Location and Registration
All events will be held on the campus of the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. To reach the University: fly to Lethbridge, or fly to Calgary and drive for 2.5 hours, taking Highway 2 south to Ft. MacLeod and then Highway 3 east from there, or fly to Great Falls and drive for 3.5 hours, taking the highway north. Once in Lethbridge proceed to the west side of town since the University is located on the western coulee banks of the Old Man River. On Highway 3 look for the Highway 25 exit south. The sessions are in the main building (University Hall). Parking is available in the parking area (Exploration Place) on the north-west side of campus. See campus map. Lethbridge offers a range of accommodation, including the Lethbridge Lodge.

Surprise, there is no registration fee, but if you know you will be coming, your registation would be appreciated:

Registration closed!

A no-host dinner may be arranged for the evening.

Participants may wish to extend their stay to tour the area. Scenic Waterton-Glacier Park is just 130 km (80 miles) SW of Lethbridge via Highway 5. Cross-country ski trails will very likely be in good condition in Waterton, and snowshoeing is also very popular. (Note though that other attractions such as the boat excursion on Waterton Lake, the drive to Red Rock Canyon, and Montana's Logan Pass and Going to the Sun Road as not open until late spring). Historic Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump and interpretive center about 45 minutes west of Lethbridge by highway is also worth a visit, as is Crowsnest Pass and the Frank Slide interpretative center about 100 minutes west on Highway 3.

 
Program
 
TimeRoomSpeakerTitle and Abstract
10:00-11:00D-634Richard AnsteeForbidden Configurations: A survey
11:00-12:00D-634Anthony BonatoThe search for n-e.c. graphs and tournaments
2:00- 3:00D-634Willem HaemersDivisible Design Graphs
3:00- 4:00D-634Mikhail MuzychukNew series of strongly regular graphs
4:00- 5:00D-634Qing XiangSkew Hadamard difference sets from commutative semifields and symplectic spreads
 
Poster Presentation
Graduate students and others who wish to present a poster are encouraged to bring their posters. For more information please contact the organizers.
 
Organizing Committee and Contacts
The organizing committee is: Hadi Kharaghani, University of Lethbridge; Peter Zvengrowski, University of Calgary; W. Holzmann, University of Lethbridge.
If you have questions please send e-mail to Hadi Kharaghani at: kharaghani at uleth dot ca or write to:
  Combinatorics Days,
  Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  University of Lethbridge,
  Lethbridge, Alberta   T1K 3M4
  CANADA

  FAX:            (403) 317-2882
 
Photos
Also check out Portraits of the Speakers by Kathabela Wilson