Nick Rollick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Dots, lines, and arrows"
In this talk, we will survey connected-homomorphism-homogeneous graphs, which is a fancy way of talking about manipulations with dots, lines, and arrows. (In the grown-up language of mathematicians, that means vertices, edges, and graph homomorphisms.) After familiarizing ourselves with the language of connected-homomorphism-homogeneous graphs, we will examine a gallery of graphs illustrating some classification results, started by Deborah Lockett, and which I subsequently expanded on. For my friends in PMATH, this should serve as a gentle and entertaining introduction to the terminology of graph theory. For my friends in CO, this is a really easy area to get into, containing some accessible open problems.
MC 5501