14th Coast Combinatorics Conference

February 12 and 13, 2011

University of Victoria
Victoria BC, Canada


Clearihue Building, Room A127

Maps, directions, bus and parking information for UVic



The Coast Combinatorics Conference is a low-key, two day meeting featuring talks which are usually 30 minutes in length.  Talks on any topic in discrete mathematics and/or theoretical computer science are welcome.  It is largely "self-serve", meaning that there is no registration fee, no main speaker, you are on your own for coffee etc. at a nearby cafe, and sometimes you need to introduce yourself when it is your time to speak.

Please let us know if you are coming to the Coast Conference by sending email to Gary MacGillivray:  gmacgill at UVic dot ca. 

Saturday, February 12 , 2011

Coffee etc. can be obtained at Bean There (Student Union Building) after 8AM

10:00 - 10:30
 Nancy Ann Neudauer (Pacific University)
 The Cycle Matroid takes on the Bicircular Matroid:  who will win?
10:30 - 11:00
 Bill Sands (University of Calgary)
 Cards, permutations, and sums
11:00 - noon
 Rob Beezer (University of Puget Sound)
 Spicing Up Your Research in Combinatorics with Sage
LUNCH BREAK
  On your own
2:00 - 2:30
 James Currie (University of Winnipeg)
 Powers and Patterns in Words
2:30 - 3:00
 Miguel Raggi (UBC)
 Use of Genetic Algorithms for Finding Forbidden Configurations
COFFEE BREAK
  On your own (several cafes open nearby on campus)
3:20 - 3:50
 Sean McGuinness (Thompson Rivers University)
 Dominating Circuits in Matroids
3:50 - 4:20
 Ross Churchley (UVic)
 Dichotomy for cycle-transverse matchings


Sunday, February 13 , 2011

Coffee etc. can be obtained at the BiblioCafe (MacPherson Library) after 10AM

10:30 - 11:00
 Joe Peters (SFU)
 Minimum Chromaticity of Circulant Graphs
11:00 - 11:30
 Dennis Epple (UVic)
 Colouring Proper Circular Arc Graphs
11:30 - noon
 Amites Sarkar (Western Washington University)
 Coverage and Percolation in Random Geometric Graphs
noon - 12:30
 Winfried Hochstättler (FernUniversität in Hagen)
 On a basis exchange game on graphs


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Travel and Accommodation

Information on travel to Victoria (from the CanaDAM Website)

Some recommended hotels in the downtown area are:

 Executive House (ask about the university rate)   James Bay Inn    Swan's Hotel (great pub!)      Best Western Carleton Plaza      Queen Victoria Inn      Helm's Inn

More expensive options include:

 Empress Hotel     Ocean Pointe Resort     Laurel Point Inn     Hotel Grand Pacific


There is a lot of tourist information for Victoria on the Web.  For example, you may find the following sites useful:

http://vanisletourism.com         http://www.tourismvictoria.com          http://www.vancouverisland.com


Please don't hesitate to ask if any information is required.  Contact info is at the top of the page.