Invited Speakers:
Richard A Brualdi, University of Wisconsin
Sebastian Cioaba, University of Delaware
Edwin van Dam, Tilburg University
Randall J Elzinga, The Royal Military College of Canada
Robert Erdahl, Queen's University
Shaun Fallat, University of Regina
Chris Godsil, University of Waterloo
Willem Haemers, Tilburg University
Steve Kirkland, University of Manitoba
Kevin N. Vander Meulen, Redeemer University College
Eric Moorhouse, University of Wyoming
Ram Murty, Queen's University
Naomi Shaked-Monderer, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College
Claude Tardif, The Royal Military College of Canada
David Wehlau, The Royal Military College of Canada
Contributing Speakers:
Aida Abiad, Tilburg University
Marina Arav, Georgia State University
Louis Deaett, Quinnipiac University
Dr. Alpesh M. Dhorajia, BITS Pilani
A. Farrag, Dalhousie University
Jan Foniok, University of Warwick
Hein van der Holst, Georgia State University
Oksana Pichugina, Brock University
Mozhgan Pourmoradnasseri, Arvutiteaduse instituut Tartu
Steven Rayan, University of Toronto
David Roberson, Nanyang Technological University
Michael Tait, University of California, San Diego
Ludmila Tsiovkina, Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
Hein van der Holst, Queen's University
Schedule
| Friday, June 20 |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Registration and Welcome |
| 10:00 - 10:25 |
Sebastian Cioaba
The discrete mathematics of David Gregory
|
| 10:30 - 10:55 |
Claude Tardif
Chromatic difference sequences of vertex-transitive graphs |
| 11:00 - 11:25 |
Steve Kirkland
Stationary Vectors of Stochastic Matrices Subject to Combinatorial
Constraints
|
| 11:30 - 11:55 |
David Wehlau
Permutations, Inversion Sets and Horn's Conjecture |
| 12:00 - 13:55 |
Lunch (not provided) |
| 13:55 - 14:25 |
Chris Godsil
Graph Invariants from Quantum Walks
|
| 14:30 - 14:45 |
Parallel Contributed Talks: Ludmila Tsiovkina
and Michael Tait |
| 14:50 - 15:05 |
Parallel Contributed Talks: Jan Foniok and Louis
Deaett |
| 15:10 - 15:25 |
Parallel Contributed Talks: Oksana Pichugina and David Roberson |
| 15:30 - 15:55 |
Break |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Parallel Contributed Talks: Aida Abiad and B. Eastman |
| 16:20 - 16:45 |
Edwin Van Dam
Graphs with many valencies and few eigenvalues |
| 16:50 - 17:15 |
Willem Haemers
Godsil-McKay switching and isomorphism |
| 18:30 |
Banquet Dinner (tickets required) |
| Saturday, June 21 |
| 9:00 - 9:25 |
Richard Brualdi
Hankel Tournaments |
| 9:30 - 9:55 |
Eric Moorhouse
Two-graphs and finite geometries
|
| 10:00 - 10:25 |
Naomi Shaked-Monderer
The maximum angle between copositive matrices |
| 10:30 - 10:55 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 11:55 |
Shaun Fallat, The Hans Schneider ILAS Lecturer
On the principal rank characteristic sequence |
| 12:00 - 13:55 |
Lunch (not provided) |
| 14:00-14:15 |
Kevin Vander Meulen
Sparse Companion Matrices |
| 14:20- 14:35 |
Parallel Contributed Talks: Marina Arav and
Steven Rayan |
| 14:40- 14:55 |
Parallel Contributed Talks: Hein van der Holst and Abdel-Aziz
Farrag |
| 15:00- 15:25 |
Break |
| 15:30 - 15:55 |
Randall Elzinga
Normalized Rational Semi-regular Graphs |
| 16:00 - 16:25 |
Robert Erdhal
Voronoi’s Conjecture on parallelohedra |
| 16:30 - 16:55 |
Ram Murty
Ramanujan graphs |
| 17:10 |
Closing |
