Programme

You can download the programme here.

You will receive a print copy upon arrival.

Wednesday 7th July 2010
09.30Those with accommodation who would like to leave their luggage in storage until check-in is permitted (at 2pm) should meet outside the Maths building.
10.00Tea and Coffee registration in the Maths building, room 102
11.00Invited Talk: Prof. Peter J Cameron (QMUL)
Connectivity, random walks and optimal block designs
12.00Break
12.10Aylin Cakiroglu
On the Optimality of the Generalized Hexagon
12.35Federico Montecalvo
Some Constructions of General Covering Designs
13.00Lunch in room 102
14.00Hiu-Fai Law
Independence Polynomial of a Tree
14.25Li Tao
Random Polynomials
14.50Aiofe Hennessy
Integer sequences, Orthogonal Polynomials and Riordan Arrays
15.15Tea and Coffee in Room 102 (and maybe biscuits if you're lucky...)
15.45Konrad Dabrowski
Colouring Vertices of Triangle-Free Graphs
16.10Nicholas Korpelainen
Hamiltonian Cycles in Subcubic Graphs: What makes the Problem Difficult
16.35Edward J. L. Bell.
Strong-connectivity of Word Digraphs
Thursday 8th July 2010
09.30John Faben
On the Lovasz Vector of a Graph
09.55Colin Mayhill
Factorial Properties of Graphs
10.20Tea and Coffee in Room 102 (with potential biscuits)
11.00Invited Talk: Dr. Søren Riis (QMUL)
A new Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem
12.00Break
12.10Michael Brough
Infinite Cores
12.35Victor Falgas-Ravry
Sharpness in k for the k-nearest neighbours model
13.00Lunch in room 102
14.00Invited Talk: Dr. Deryk Osthus (University of Birmingham)
Hamilton decompositions of graphs and digraphs
15.00Tea and Coffee in Room 102 (plus whatever biscuits remain by this point. Probably just those God-awful plain ones.)
15.30Niema Ali Aboluion
DNA Codes with a reverse complement constraint
15.55Penying Rochanakul
Two-Level Fingerprinting Codes
16.20Linzy A. Phillips
Erasure-Correcting Codes Incorporating Puzzle-Type Constraints and Meta-Information
Friday 9th July 2010
09.30Matthew White
Long cycles in 2-coloured graphs
09.55Lutz Warnke
Dense subgraphs in the H-free process
10.20Tea and Coffee in Room 102 (are there really likely to be any biscuits left by now? You might have to bring your own.)
11.00Invited Talk Prof. Jan van den Heuvel (LSE)
Degrees of Perfection
12.00Break
12.10Michael Adamaszek
Square roots and higher roots of graphs
12.35Jessica Enright
Caterpillars, trees, and alligators: a chat about intersection graphs
13.00Lunch in room 102