Valley Discrete Mathematics Day

Friday, 12 October 2001

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

The meeting will take place in the 16th floor lounge area of the Lederle Graduate

Research Tower (LGRT) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Time	Speaker	Title
9:30 - 10:00	Break
10:00 - 11:00	Michael O. Albertson, Smith College	150 Years of Coloring Graphs on Surfaces: A Drama in Several Acts
11:00 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:00	Arny Rosenberg, U Mass Amherst	Techniques for Proving Lower Bounds on Graph Separation Width

12:00 - 1:30	Lunch, Room 1634, LGRT

1:30 - 2:00	Ileana Streinu, Smith College	Folding Carpenter's Rules, Robot Arms, Proteins: a Combinatorial Approach
2:00 - 2:30	Matthias Beck, Suny Binghamton	Sperner's theorem and its generalizations
2:30 - 3:00	Break
3:00 - 3:30	Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College	1-2 rooted trees and the representation theory of iterated wreath products.
3:30 - 4:00	Dmitry Kozlov, KTH Stockholm	Combinatorics of resonances
4:00 - 4:15	Break
4:15 - 5:15	Sara Billey, MIT	A Root System Description of Pattern Avoidance with Applications to G/B

There will be a reception/dinner in the evening at 6:30 PM at the home of Sarah Witherspoon and Frank Sottile. Here are some directions.

Local Organizer: Frank Sottile, UMass
Regional Committee: Seth Chaiken of SUNY-Albany, Rosa Orellana of Dartmouth College, and Frank Sottile

Supported in part by the Five College Lecture Fund, Smith College, Mt. Holyoke College, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts.