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Final Program Final Program Sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics The SIAG on Discrete Mathematics focuses on combinatorics, graph theory, cryptography, discrete optimization, mathematical programming, coding theory, information theory, game theory, and theoretical computer science, including algorithms, complexity, circuit design, robotics, and parallel processing. This activity group provides an opportunity to unify pure discrete mathematics and areas of applied research such as computer science, operations research, combinatorics, and the social sciences. It organizes the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics; co-sponsors, with ACM SIGACT, the annual Symposium on Discrete Algorithms; and sponsors minisymposia at SIAM meetings and conferences. The activity group also runs DM-Net, an electronic forum; publishes an electronic newsletter; and maintains a website and a member directory. Every two years, the activity group also awards the Dénes König Prize to a young researcher for outstanding research in the area of discrete mathematics. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3600 Market Street, 6th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688 USA Telephone: +1-215-382-9800 Fax: +1-215-386-7999 Conference E-mail: [email protected] Conference Web: www.siam.org/meetings/ Membership and Customer Service: (800) 447-7426 (USA & Canada) or +1-215-382-9800 (worldwide) www.siam.org/meetings/dm18 2 SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics Table of Contents Local Organizing Conference Location Committee All sessions and on-site registration Program-At-A-Glance… Michael Ferrara will take place on the University of ................................ Separate handout University of Colorado Denver, USA Colorado, Denver campus located in the Tivoli Student Union and North General Information .............................. 2 Stephen Hartke Get-togethers ......................................... 4 University of Colorado Denver, USA Classroom Building. Invited Plenary Presentations ................ 5 Michael Jacobson Prize ...................................................... 8 University of Colorado Denver, USA Program Schedule ............................... 11 SIAM Registration Desk Speaker and Organizer Index .............. 45 Florian Pfender University of Colorado Denver, USA The SIAM registration desk locations Conference Budget ... Inside Back Cover and hours are listed below: Hotel Floor Plan ................... Back Cover Monday, June 4 Conference Themes 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM Organizing Committee Discrete Mathematics, including: Tivoli Student Union Turnhalle (TV 250) Atrium Co-Chairs Algebraic Combinatorics Jerry Griggs Combinatorial Algorithms 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM University of South Carolina, USA Combinatorial Number Theory North Classroom 1130 Entry Ravi Kumar Design Theory Google, Mountain View, USA Tuesday, June 5 Discrete Geometry 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM Enumeration North Classroom 1130 Entry Organizing Committee Extremal Combinatorics Bonnie Berger Wednesday, June 6 Graph Theory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM Jennifer Tour Chayes Matroids North Classroom 1130 Entry Microsoft Research New England, USA Ordered Sets Bill Chen Probabilistic Combinatorics Thursday, June 7 Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM Ramsey Theory China North Classroom 1130 Entry Topological and Analytical Techniques Julia Chuzhoy Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, in Combinatorics Friday, June 8 USA 7:30 AM – 10:30 AM North Classroom 1130 Entry David Conlon With connections to other disciplines, University of Oxford, United Kingdom including: Daniela Kühn Computational Biology Child Care University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Conference attendees interested in child Combinatorial Scientific Computing David Shmoys care services can visit www.care.com. Cornell University, USA Computer Science Attendees are responsible for making Angelika Stege Game Theory their own child care arrangements. ETH Zürich, Switzerland Network Theory Prasad Tetali Optimization Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Probability Michelle Wachs University of Miami, USA Statistical Physics SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics 3 Corporate Members Mentor Graphics If you are not a SIAM member and paid and Affiliates National Institute of Standards and the Non-Member or Non-Member Mini Technology (NIST) Speaker/Organizer rate to attend the SIAM corporate members provide conference, you can apply the difference their employees with knowledge about, National Security Agency (DIRNSA) between what you paid and what a access to, and contacts in the applied Naval PostGrad member would have paid ($140 for a mathematics and computational sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed Non-Member and $70 for a Non-Member community through their membership Mini Speaker/Organizer) towards a benefits. Corporate membership is more by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy SIAM membership. 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