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Ontario Combinatorics Workshop
Friday-Saturday May 23-24,2008
University of Waterloo
Organizing Committee: Chris Godsil (Waterloo), Daniel Panario
(Carleton), Bruce Richter (Waterloo), Brett Stevens (Carleton)
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Overview
The Ontario Combinatorics Workshop has a long, if somewhat irregular,
history. Its main purpose is to bring together graduate students
studying Combinatorics from around (southern) Ontario so that they
get some idea of the scope and depth of their subject. In addition
it provides students with an opportunity to meet faculty from other
institutions at which they might in future wish to pursue their
studies or careers; it is also a useful opportunity for the faculty
to maintain contact.
This year the workshop will be held at the University of Waterloo
on Friday-Saturday May 23-24, 2008. The invited speakers are:
Jit Bose (Carleton)
Penny Haxell (Waterloo)
Bill Martin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
All talks will take place in MC5136 at the University of Waterloo.
Directions to University of Waterloo and a map of the campus can
be found at: http://communications.uwaterloo.ca/howtoreach.php
Contributed talks
Graduate students are strongly encouraged to
present their work in this friendly environment. The Peter Rodney
Memorial Bookprize will be presented to the graduate student judged
to have given the best talk.
Please send your titles and abstracts to both brett@math.carleton.ca
and brichter@uwaterloo.ca
Participant List as
of May 21, 2008
| Fullname |
University Name |
| Bailey, Robert |
Carleton University |
| Bose, Prosenjit |
Carleton University |
| Boucher, Christina |
University of Waterloo |
| Bruce, Daniel |
University of Guelph |
| Burgess, Andrea |
University of Ottawa |
| Christian, Robin |
University of Waterloo |
| Danziger, Peter |
Ryerson Polytechnic University |
| Erickson, Alejandro |
University of Waterloo |
| Francetic, Nevena |
University of Toronto |
| Gao, Pu |
University of Waterloo |
| Godsil, Chris |
University of Waterloo |
| Gosselin, Shonda |
University of Ottawa |
| Guay-Paquet, Mathieu |
University of Waterloo |
| Haxell, Penny |
University of Waterloo |
| Kemkes, Graeme |
University of Waterloo |
| Lucier, Brendan |
University of Toronto |
| Martin, William |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| McDonald, Jessica |
University of Waterloo |
| Mendelsohn, Eric |
University of Toronto |
| Miltchman, Olga |
University of Waterloo |
| Mullin, Natalie |
University of Waterloo |
| Murray, Josh |
University of New Brunswick |
| Novak, Jonathan |
Queen's University |
| Omidi Koma, Behzad |
Carleton University |
| Panario, Daniel |
Carleton University |
| Pivotto, Irene |
University of Waterloo |
| Reid, Colin |
McMaster University |
| Richter, Bruce |
University of Waterloo |
| Rosa, Alexander |
McMaster University |
| Shirazi, Hamed |
University of Waterloo |
| Silva, Marcel |
University of Waterloo |
| Silvesan, Daniela |
Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Stevens, Brett |
Carleton University |
| Wang, Baoyong |
Carleton University |
| Xie, Feng |
McMaster University |
| Zhan, Lina |
Carleton University |
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Ontario Combinatorics Workshop Schedule
(All Talks in MC5136)
(Speakers Abstracts)
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| Friday, May 23 |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Penny Haxell, University
of Waterloo
Independent transversals
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Jessica McDonald,
University of Waterloo
Achieving maximum chromatic
index in multigraphs |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Natalie Mullin, University of
Waterloo
Constructing Strongly Regular
Graphs |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Robert Bailey, Carleton University
Hamiltonian decompositions
of complete $k$-uniform hypergraphs |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Daniela Silvesan, Memorial University
of Newfoundland
The intersection spectrum
of Skolem sequences |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch
Break |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Bill Martin, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
The story of $(T,M,S)$-nets
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Martin Pei, University of Waterloo
List colouring Steiner triple
systems |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Shonda Gosselin, University of
Ottawa
Self-complementary uniform
hypergraphs |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Andrea Burgess, University of
Ottawa
Closed trail decompositions
of complete equipartite graphs |
| Saturday, May 24 |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Amy Cameron, University
of Ottawa
A Simpler 3/2-Approximation
Algorithm for the Multi-two-edge Connected Subgraph Problem
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| 9:30-10:00 |
Matei David, University
of Toronto
Separating Number-On-Forehead
Communication Complexity Classes RP and NP |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Feng Xie, McMaster University
Hyperplane Arrangements with
Large Average Diameter |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University
An overview of geometric spanners |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Christina Boucher, University
of Waterloo
Towards identifying when
a consensus exists: a study of probabistic algorithms for {\sc
Consensus Sequence} |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Jonathan Novak, Queens University
Some combinatorial properties
of truncated random unitary matrices |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Brendan Lucier, University of
Toronto
Fast Mixing for 3-Colourings
on Bounded-Degree Trees |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break and
Goodbyes |
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