Pacific Institute for the
 Mathematical Sciences   Banff International Research Station
 
 
 Eleventh Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop
 

Place and Date | Sponsors | Speakers | Location and Registration | Financial Support for Students | Accommodation | Program | Organizing Committee and Contacts |  

 

The workshop builds on the success of the ten previous Prairie Discrete Math Workshops, from the first one organized by Shaun Fallat and Brian Alspach and held at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, in early October 2003, through the tenth held at Thompson Rivers University in 2013. The intention is to gather together combinatorists from the prairie provinces and nearby locations for a relatively informal workshop. We were lucky to receive permission to hold this 11th edition of the workshop at the Banff International Research Station, which we hope will revitalise the gathering after a brief hiatus last year.

 
Place and Date

Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Friday August 7 - Sunday August 9, 2015.

 
Sponsors

Funding is provided by the the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

 
Invited speakers

Confirmed invited speakers are:

 
Location and Registration

All events will be held at BIRS. For directions and information about the site and logistics, please see the BIRS web site.

There is no registration fee. Accommodation is covered by BIRS. Breakfasts and lunches will be covered by our funding from PIMS. Participants will be responsible for their own dinner arrangements and expenses.

 
Financial Support for Students

Limited financial support is available for post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, or senior undergraduate students. Please contact Joy Morris (joy.morris@uleth.ca).

 
Accommodation

Accommodation is at BIRS. Most rooms are single, with two sharing a bathroom.

 
Program

The talks will be in room TCPL 201 at BIRS, with facilities for all kinds of presentations. Details can be found on the BIRS web site.

TimeSpeakerTitle & Abstracts
Friday
August 7
16:00- ??ArrivalPlease arrive on Friday afternoon or evening. Check-in anytime from 16:00 on, at the Professional Development Centre Front Desk, open 24 hours. Lecture rooms become available to us at 16:00.
19:00-21:00Informal gathering2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall. BIRS always has some beverages and snacks available in the lounge on a cash honour basis. PDMW will also provide a small assortment of snacks and non-alcoholic beverages, free of charge, this evening.
 
Saturday
August 8
Breakfast (Vistas is open from 7:00-9:30)
9:30-10:20Michael DoobComputer software and combinatorics: Transitions and convergence
Coffee Break
10:50-11:40Renate ScheidlerAn Introduction to Hyperelliptic Curve Arithmetic
Lunch Break (Vistas is open from 11:30-13:30)
14:00-14:50Gabriel VerretVertex-primitive digraphs having vertices with almost equal neighbourhoods
Coffee Break
15:20-15:45Nicholas BeatonCompressed random and self-avoiding walks
15:55-16:20Karen GundersonTime for graph bootstrap percolation
16:30-16:55Muhammad Ali KhanCharacterizing the degree sequences of hypergraphs
 
Sunday
August 9
Breakfast (Vistas is open from 7:00-9:30)
9:30-10:20Richard BrewsterComplexity of circular recolourings
Coffee Break
10:50-11:15Chris SoterosPolygons, Polymers and Entangled DNA
11:25-11:50Boting YangZero-Visibility Cops-and-Robber Problems on Graphs
12:00Check-outGuests must check out of their rooms by 12:00.
End of workshop, Lunch (Vistas is open from 11:30-13:30), Departure
DepartureYou are welcome to stay for discussions and to enjoy Banff before travelling home. We have use of the BIRS facilities (except the guest rooms) until 15:00.
 
Organizing Committee and Contacts

The organizing committee is: Joy Morris, U. of Lethbridge; and Dave Morris, U. of Lethbridge.

If you have questions please send e-mail to Joy Morris (see above).
PIMS website:   http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/150807-pdmw
Local website: http://www.cs.uleth.ca/~morris/PDMW11
BIRS website: http://www.birs.ca/events/2015/2-day-workshops/15w2206

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2015 July 28