Annual Miami Fall Conference 2003

Discrete Mathematics & Its Applications

Oct 3-4, 2003


Friday Oct 3, 2003


Time Speaker
Title
Room
1:00 pm

Organizers


Welcome and Introductions

BAC 101
1:15pm - 2:15 pm

Robin Thomas
Georgia Institute of Technology


Invited Address: Perfect Graphs

BAC 101

Coffee Break

Time BAC 102
BAC 110
BAC 114
2:30 - 2:45

Darryl Nester

Bluffton College
"Using Mathematics to Solve a Word Puzzle"

Lucas Lee

Miami University
"The zero-divisor graph of a ring"


Peter Blanchard

Miami University
"Pseudo-Arithmetic Sets and Ramsey Theory"

2:50 - 3:05

Steve Harnish

Bluffton College
" "Ebgngr Guvegrra" to RSA: Weekly encryption assignments for Discrete Mathematics"


Sarah-Marie Belcastro

Xavier University
"How NOT to prove Grunbaum's Conjecture for the torus"

Mathew Cropper

Eastern Kentucky University
"Discussing a conjecture of Stahl"

3:10 - 3:25

Jeffrey Nunemacher

Ohio Wesleyan University
" How Many Automorphisms?"


Grady Burkett

Wright State University
"Circulant Weighing Matrices, an introduction, a solved problem, and an unsolved problem (Part I)"

Prem Sharma

Butler University
"Hypergraphs of size m with least boundary"
3:30 - 3:45

Tom Richmond

Western Kentucky University
"Topology Disguised as Discrete Mathematics"


Micah Fuerst

Wright State University
"Circulant Weighing Matrices, an introduction, a solved problem, and an unsolved problem (Part II)"

Coffee Break


Time Speaker
Title
Room
4 - 5 pm

Charlie Colbourn,
Arizona State University


Invited Address: Topology transparency in mobile ad-hoc networks

BAC 101

Time Speaker
Title
Room
5:30 pm
hungry people


Buffet Dinner (reservation required)

TBA
7 pm
Students


Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference

TBA
9 pm
All people still awake

Party

TBA


Saturday, Oct 4, 2003


Time Speaker
Title
Room
8:30 am
hungry and sleepy people


Coffee and doughnuts

Coffee Room
9 am - 10 am

Robin Thomas,
Georgia Institute of Technology


Invited Address: Pfaffian Orientation of Graphs

BAC 101


Time BAC 102
BAC 110
BAC 114
10:10 - 10:25

Darren Parker

University of Dayton
" Convexity in Multipartite Tournaments"

Mihai Caragiu & Mellita Caragiu

Ohio Northern University
"Building bridges towards Physics in the Discrete Mathematics Class"


J.T. Saccoman

Seton Hall University
"Spanning Trees, Network Reliability, and Multigraphs"

10:30 - 10:45

Atif Abueida

University of Dayton
" Multidesigns of the $\lambda$-fold complete graph "


Khristo N. Boyadzhiev

Ohio Northern University
"Geometric Polynomials and the geometric transformation formula for series"

Arnie Hammel

Central Michigan University
"Applying topics from Cryptology to the Introductory Discrete Mathematics Course"



Time Speaker
Title
Room
11 am - 12 pm

Robin Thomas,
Georgia Institute of Technology


Invited Address: The Four-color Theorem

BAC 101


Time Speaker
Title
Room
12 pm - 1 pm
hungry and tired people


Picnic Lunch (reservations required)

TBA


Time BAC 102
BAC 110
BAC 114
1:10 - 1:25

Wiebke Diestelkamp

University of Dayton
" On the degree of local permutation polynomials"

Laurence Robinson


Ohio Northern University
" A General Solution to a Math Puzzle"


Ibrahim Haslinda

Southern Illinois University
"Construction of 3-fold triple System from related factorization"

1:30 - 1:45

R. Sritharan

University of Dayton
" Boolean matrix multiplication and graph algorithms"


Michael Pelsmajer

Illinois Institute of Technology
"The toughness of a toroidal graph with connectivity 3 and girth 6 is exactly 1"

Mark Kannowski

DePauw University
" A Paradox of Voting Power"



Coffee Break



Time Speaker
Title
Room
2pm - 3pm

Charlie Colbourn,
Arizona State University


Invited Address: Covering Arrays for Interaction Software Testing

BAC 101

Conference concludes, Danke Schoen!