Schedule and titles of talks
Abstracts of the talks can be found, in PDF format here.
Wednesday 21st May | ||
Queen Mary, University of London - start time 10.30 | ||
Talks
will be held in the Maths Lecture Theatre (MLT). This is
in the School of Mathematical Sciences, to which directions can be
found here: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/about/location.shtml Coffee will be available from 10.00 in Room 102 for early arrivals. | ||
Time | ||
10.30 - 10.35 | Welcome -
Adrian Smith |
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10.40 - 11.20 |
Anthony Hilton - Partial
latin squares, partial gerechte designs, list colouring and Hall's
condition |
|
11.25
- 12.05 |
Emil Vaughan
- Completing partial gerechte designs |
|
12.05 - 13.30 |
Lunch (own arrangements - options
on campus and nearby) |
|
13.30
- 14.10 |
Peter Borg - Extremal t-intersecting sub-families of hereditary families | |
14.15 - 14.55 |
Roland Haggkvist -
Completion of partial Latin squares |
|
14.55
- 15.35 |
Tea break |
|
15.35
- 16.15 |
Imre Leader
- Pursuit and evasion |
|
16.20
- 17.00 |
Donald
Keedwell - Something new (all Buchsteiner quasigroups are loops) and
something old (a still-unsolved problem of integer sequences) |
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Dinner - An Indian restaurant near Queen Mary is booked for dinner at around 7pm, and colloquium attendees are invited to join the organisers and speakers for this. A comprehensive special menu at £16 per head will be available, and there are vegetarian alternatives instead. Those interested in attending should let Robert Johnson know on R.Johnsonqmul.ac.uk, including whether they would like the special menu, as these details need to be communicated to the restaurant two days in advance. | |
Thursday 22nd May | ||
London School of Economics and Political Science - start time 10.00 | ||
Talks will be held in the New Theatre (E171), in the East
Building. Directions and maps can be found here:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/Default.htm The entrance to the East Building is on Houghton Street. |
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Time |
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10.00
- 10.40 |
John Talbot - Turán problems in the hypercube | |
10.45
- 11.05 |
Coffee break |
|
11.05 - 11.45 |
Petra Berenbrink - Convergence issues of congestion games | |
11.50 - 12.30 |
Oliver Riordan - Clique percolation | |
12.30
- 14.10 |
Lunch (own arrangements - options
on campus and nearby) |
|
14.10 - 15.10 |
"The Norman Biggs Lecture" Reinhard Diestel - π1(|G|), earrings, and limits of free groups |
|
15.10 - 15.35 | Coffee break |
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15.35
- 16.15 |
David Wagner - A combinatorial proof of an identity for spanning trees | |
16.20
- 17.00 |
Deryk Osthus - Cycles in directed graphs |
Last change: 16th May 2008 by SJ