Friday, January 7, 2011

[DMANET] 12th Winter Combinatorics Meeting

12th annual Winter Combinatorics Meeting
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Wednesday 2 February 2011
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
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Talks will take place in Room 15, Christodoulou Meeting Rooms at
Walton Hall Campus.
Refreshments will be served in the Mathematics and Statistics Common
Room, Alan Turing Building.

All are welcome -- no registration is necessary.

For further details and abstracts, see http://wcm.open.ac.uk
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Schedule:

10:15-10:45 Tea/coffee

10:50-10:55 Introduction - Robin Wilson

11:00-11:40 Sophie Huczynska (University of St Andrews)
From sum-free sets to subgroups: what lies between?

11:45-12:25 Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary, University of London)
The computational complexity of Ising model on some
classes of matroids

12:30-13:55 Lunch

14:00-14:40 Deryk Osthus (University of Birmingham)
Perfect matchings and Hamilton cycles in hypergraphs

14:45-15:25 Tom McCourt (University of Queensland, moving to
University of Bristol)
Biembedding twofold triple systems

15:30-15:55 Tea/coffee

16:00-16:40 Colin McDiarmid (University of Oxford)
Colouring random geometric graphs
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