Atlanta Lecture Series (ALS) in Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Atlanta Lecture Series XIX (ALS19) at Georgia State University, 4/22–4/23, 2017

Introduction

The series of Mini-Conferences has been alternatively hosted by Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Georgia State University, three major research universities in Atlanta metropolitan. Each Mini-Conference features one or more principle speakers and several other outstanding combinatorics/graph theorists, as well as some promising young researchers.

Registration

Registration link is here.

Speakers

Featured Speakers

Ronald Lewis “Ron” Graham, University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA
Daniela Kühn, University of Birmingham, England
Deryk Osthus, University of Birmingham, England

One-hour Speakers

Asaf Shapira, Tel-Aviv University
Wenan Zang, University of Hong Kong
Brendan Nagle , University of South Florida

Half-hour Speakers

Jessica McDonald, Auburn University
Louis DeBiasio , Miami University, Ohio
Georgios Petridis , University of Georgia
Clifford Smyth, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Brochure (Schedule, titles and abstracts) ALS19Brochure.pdf

cd web files

Schedule

Saturday, April 22nd, 2017

Time	Speaker	Title & Abstract
12:30-12:55pm	Jessica McDonald	List Edge-colouring Graphs with Restricted Odd Cycles
1:00pm-1:50pm	Ronald Graham	The Combinatorics of Solving Linear Equations
2:00pm-2:50pm	Brendan Nagle	An Algorithmic Hypergraph Regularity Lemma
2:50pm-3:20pm	Break
3:20pm-4:10pm	Daniela Kühn	The existence of designs –beyond quasirandomness
4:15pm-4:40pm	Georgios Petridis	Expansion of polynomials in prime order finite fields

Sunday, April 23rd, 2017

Time	Speaker	Title & Abstract
8:30am-8:55am	Louis DeBiasio	Infinite Graph-Ramsey Theory
9:00am-9:50am	Deryk Osthus	A blow-up lemma for approximate decompositions and the tree packing conjecture
9:55am-10:45am	Wenan Zang	Recent Advances in Polyhedral Combinatorics
10:50am-11:40am	Asaf Shapira	Removal Lemmas with Polynomial Bounds
11:45am-12:10pm	Clifford Smyth	Combinatorial formulas for restricted Stirling and Lah number matrices and their inverses

Locations

Conference location: Room 24, Aderhold Learning Center (60 Luckie St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303)
Parking location: GSU G Deck (Courtland St SE, Atlanta, GA 30303)
Lodging: Fairfield Inn & Suites Atlanta Downtown (54 Peachtree Street SW Atlanta Georgia 30303 USA )
- The rate is $110.00/night. When making reservations, be sure to mention GSU Atlanta Lecture Series.