Valley Discrete Mathematics Day

Friday, 12 October 2001

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

Speakers:

Michael O. Albertson, Smith College

Matthias Beck, SUNY-Binghamton

Sara Billey, MIT

Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College

Dmitry Kozlov, KTH Stockholm

Arny Rosenberg, U Mass

Ileana Streinu, Smith College

The meeting began at 9:30 AM (first talk at 10:00 AM) and continued through 5:15 PM. There were be two main one-hour talks and also 5 one-half hour talks. Lunch was provided, and there was a reception/dinner at 6:30 PM at the home of Frank Sottile and Sarah Witherspoon. The Schedule. Here are abstracts. List of participants.

Directions to campus and parking from I-91. More general directions. A Campus map

This one-day meeting is in conjunction with the Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics organized by Dmitry Kozlov and Eva-Maria Feichtner at the Williamstown AMS meeting on 13 and 14 October.

We will help defray the expenses of students and some new Ph.D.'s, and we will organize transportation from Amherst or Williamstown on Friday Evening. Here is a list of local hotels.

It is very important that you contact Frank Sottile if you plan to come; He needs a head count for Lunch, and to make arrangements for support for graduate students who attend.

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.