Friday, July 27, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Algorithms for Rank-1 Bimatrix Games

Speaker: Bernhard von Stengel
Affiliation: London School of Economics
Room: MC 5501

Abstract:

The rank of a bimatrix game is the matrix rank of the sum of the two payoff matrices.

Thursday, July 26, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Acyclic Colouring of Graphs on Surfaces

Speaker: Shayla Redlin
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5479

Abstract: An acyclic k-colouring of a graph G is a proper k-colouring of G with no

Friday, July 20, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Claw-free matroids

Speaker: Peter Nelson
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5501

Abstract: A simple binary matroid is claw-free if it has no independent rank-3 flat. I will discuss a structure theorem, obtained jointly with Kazuhiro Nomoto, that classifies these objects exactly.

Thursday, July 19, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Density and Structure of Homomorphism-Critical Graphs

Speaker: Evelyne Smith-Roberge
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5417

Abstract: 

Let H be a graph. A graph G is H-critical if every proper subgraph of G admits a homomor-
phism to H, but G itself does not.

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 3:00 PM EDT

Title: Using Linear Algebra to do Matching Theory

Speaker: Justin Toth
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5501

Abstract:

A matching in a graph is a set of edges with each vertex contained in at most one edge. A perfect matching is a matching in which each vertex is contained in some edge.

Thursday, July 12, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Gaps in the crossing numbers of drawings of the complete graph

Speaker: Bruce Richter
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5479

Abstract: In the late 1990’s, a 5-author manuscript circulated proving the existence of intervals of integers that connot occur as the crossing number of a “good” drawing of the complete graph. 

Thursday, July 12, 2018 1:30 PM EDT

Title: Periodicity on Oriented Graphs by way of Transcendental Number Theory

Speaker: Sabrina Lato
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: Using the adjacency matrix of a graph, it is straightforward to show that perfect state transfer between two vertices at some time t implies that both vertices will be periodic at time 2t.

Friday, July 6, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: The coloring problem for restricted graph classes

Speaker: Chinh T. Hoang
Affiliation: Wilfred Laurier University
Room: MC 5501

Abstract:

Let L be a set of graphs. Free(L) is the set of graphs that do not contain any graph in L as an induced subgraph.

Thursday, July 5, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title:Generalizing the problem of packing disjoint cycles

Speaker: Paul Wollan
Affiliation: University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Room: MC 5479

Abstract: A classic result of Erdos and Posa states that there exists a function f such that for all k,

Thursday, July 5, 2018 1:30 PM EDT

Title: Edge State Transfer

Speaker: Tina Chen
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: Most research about quantum state transfer on graphs use adjacency matrices as their Hamiltonians and investigate the transfers between single vertex states.

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