Monday, January 16, 2012

[DMANET] 13th Winter Combinatorics Meeting, The Open University

13th annual Winter Combinatorics Meeting
---------------------------
Wednesday 25 January 2012
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
---------------------------
Talks will take place in Room 1, Christodoulou Meeting Rooms at Walton
Hall Campus.
Refreshments will be served in the Mathematics and Statistics Common
Room, Alan Turing Building.
Anyone attending the Meeting is welcome to join the group going to a
restaurant afterwards. For details see the 'Dinner' page of the
website.

All are welcome -- no registration is necessary.

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

10:15 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee (in the Mathematics and Statistics Common Room)

11:00 - 11:40 Einar Steingrímsson (University of Strathclyde)
Permutation patterns

11:45 - 12:25 António Breda D'Azevedo (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Maps, hypermaps and abstract polytopes

12:30 - 13:55 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40 Peter Danziger (Ryerson University, Canada)
2-factorizations of the complete graph

14:45 - 15.25 Diana Piguet (University of Birmingham)
Embedding cycles of given length in oriented graphs

15:30 - 15:55 Tea/Coffee (in the Mathematics and Statistics Common Room)

16:00 - 16:40 Ian Anderson (University of Glasgow)
Homage to John T. Mitchell: some early and recent combinatorial designs
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
**********************************************************