Graduate Student Combinatorics Seminar, Fall 2004

The graduate student combinatorics seminar is organized by graduate students in the math, computer science, and operations research departments. Students (and perhaps other invited speakers) speak about topics in combinatorics that are of interest to the group as a whole. The talks are to be understandable to everyone present.

The seminar usually meets most Mondays at 1:10pm in the new Graduate Student Lounge on the 7th floor of the Hill Center. Sometimes we meet on Wednesdays at 11:30 instead. Everyone is invited to attend.

This semester the seminar is also being sponsored by DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. DIMACS is providing funding for food and help with publicity, as well as access to DIMACS members and visitors to participate in the seminar.

We are currently looking for speakers (including faculty and visitors) for the seminar. If you would like to give a talk, then please contact Nick Weininger, whose webpage is here.

Upcoming Speakers:
Wed Dec 15 at 12:00
Prof. Rados Radoicic will speak on a topic TBD.

Previous Speakers:
Wed Dec 1
Prof. Jeff Kahn spoke on entropy methods. (7 attendees)

Wed Nov 17
Vince Vatter spoke on packing densities of permutations (9 attendees).

Wed Nov 10
Ian Levitt spoke on sum-free subsets. (9 attendees)

Mon Nov 1
Mike Neiman spoke on median orders of tournaments. (6 attendees)

Mon Oct 11
Bill Cuckler spoke on a list coloring problem. (5 attendees)

Mon Oct 4
Xiaomin Chen spoke on the convex hull of random lines in the plane. (5 attendees)

Wed Sep 29, 11:30 am
Prof. Joszef Beck spoke on dark directions of circle packings. (7 attendees)

Mon Sep 13
Nick Weininger spoke on percolation and bunkbed graphs. (7 attendees)

Links:
Previous semesters: Spring 2004, Fall 2003 and Spring 2003.
Rutgers Math Department's Seminar Page.
DIMACS/Computer Science Theory of Computing Seminar (previous semesters).
A new Rutgers seminar on experimental math.
Princeton discrete math seminar.