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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.
| Time | Speaker | Title & Abstracts |
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| Friday August 7 | ||
| 16:00- ?? | Arrival | Please 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. |
| 19:00-21:00 | Informal gathering | 2nd 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) | ||
| 9:30-10:20 | Michael Doob | Computer software and combinatorics: Transitions and convergence |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 10:50-11:40 | Renate Scheidler | An Introduction to Hyperelliptic Curve Arithmetic |
| Lunch Break (Vistas is open from 11:30-13:30) | ||
| 14:00-14:50 | Gabriel Verret | Vertex-primitive digraphs having vertices with almost equal neighbourhoods |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 15:20-15:45 | Nicholas Beaton | Compressed random and self-avoiding walks |
| 15:55-16:20 | Karen Gunderson | Time for graph bootstrap percolation |
| 16:30-16:55 | Muhammad Ali Khan | Characterizing the degree sequences of hypergraphs |
| Sunday August 9 | ||
| Breakfast (Vistas is open from 7:00-9:30) | ||
| 9:30-10:20 | Richard Brewster | Complexity of circular recolourings |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 10:50-11:15 | Chris Soteros | Polygons, Polymers and Entangled DNA |
| 11:25-11:50 | Boting Yang | Zero-Visibility Cops-and-Robber Problems on Graphs |
| 12:00 | Check-out | Guests must check out of their rooms by 12:00. |
| End of workshop, Lunch (Vistas is open from 11:30-13:30), Departure | ||
| Departure | You 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 |
Last update:
2015 July 28