Coast Combinatorics Conference 2012

17^th Coast Combinatorics Conference
and

First BC Combinatorics Day

Saturday October 20, 2012
10AM

University of Victoria
Victoria BC, Canada

Clearihue Building, Room A127

Maps, directions, bus and parking information for UVic

Overview

The Coast Combinatorics Conferences are low-key meetings that welcome 30-minute (or so) talks on any topic in discrete mathematics and/or theoretical computer science. They are informal and 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.

Everyone is welcome to attend the CCC. Please let us know if you are coming by sending email to Gary MacGillivray: gmacgill at UVic dot ca. It makes planning easier.

The organizers are grateful for the financial support of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

There will be a social event at the Canoe Brewpub following the last talk. Some hospitality for graduate students at this event is thanks to funding from the Student Committee of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

Schedule of Events

			EARLY? Coffee is available at BEAN THERE in the Student Union Building (across the street from the Clearihue Building)

10:00	Mark Schurch	UVic	Edge Colourings and the Depression of a Graph
10:30	Daryl Funk	SFU	Unique graph representations of frame matroids
11:00	Vasu Tewari	UBC	Computation of certain Kronecker coefficients
11:30	Luis Goddyn	SFU	Classification of Toroidal Triangulations with one Vertex of Degree Greater than Six

			LUNCH BREAK

2:00	Matt DeVos	SFU	Sets with very small product
2:30	Branko Grunbaum	Washington	A chaotic generation of regular polygons
3:00	Pei-Lan Yen	SFU	Hankel determinants of sums of consecutive weighted Schröder numbers

			COFFEE BREAK (thanks to PIMS!)

4:00	Colin Garnett	UVic	The Nilpotent-Centralizer Method and its Applications
3:30	Andrew King	SFU	Getting to the point of Reed's Conjecture: How local can you go?
5:00	Padraic Bartlett	CalTech	Completions of $\leq \epsilon$-Dense Partial Latin Squares

			SOCIAL EVENT at Canoe Brewpub, 450 Swift Street (grad students, please see above!)

Download the Schedule and Abstracts

Please don't hesitate to ask if any information is required. We are pleased to suggest hotels or travel options. Contact info is in the Overview.