Public Workshop: Graph Theory Day, Saturday, November 10, 2001
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0100921
Preliminary Program
Monday November 12, 2001 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Greeting: Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS Director 9:15 - 9:30 Introductory Remarks: Pierre Hansen, GERAD 9:30 - 10:10 Link Jonathan Berry, Elon College 10:15 - 10:45 Break 10:45 - 11:25 Designing Learning Algorithms for Practical Computing Mark Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11:30 - 1:30 Lunch and Informal Discussion 1:30 - 2:25 Interactive Conjecturing I - The Vega System Interactive Conjecturing II - Lab demo of Vega Tomasz Pisanski, University of Ljubljiana 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 3:40 Overview of Graph Dragan Stevanovic, University of Nis, Yugoslavia 3:45 - 4:25 Lab demo of Link Jonathan Berry, Elon College 4:30 - 5:10 CaGe - an environment for the work with some classes of planar graphs Sebastian Lisken, University of Bielefeld 5:15 - 5:55 SEAL: System for enhancing algorithms through learning Eric Breimer and Darren Lim, Rensselaer Polytechnic University Tuesday November 13, 2001 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 - 9:40 Overview of Graffiti Siemion Fajtlowicz, University of Houston 9:45 - 10:25 Application of Graffiti Ermilinda DeLaVina, University of Houston-Downtown 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:40 Overview of AGX Pierre Hansen, GERAD 11:45 - 12:25 Application of AGX Gilles Caporossi, Universite de Montreal 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Informal Discussion 2:00 - 2:40 Applications of AGX Hadrien Melot, University of Brussels 2:45 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 3:55 Lab demo of Graffiti Ermilinda DeLaVina, University of Houston-Downtown 4:00 - 4:40 Lab demo of AGX Gilles Caporossi, Universite de Montreal 4:45 - 5:25 Applications of Graffiti Barbara Chervenka, University of Houston-Downtown and Ryan Pepper, University of Houston 6:30 - 9:00 Buffet Dinner at Holiday Inn, South Plainfield, Followed by a Social Hour Wednesday November 14, 2001 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 - 9:40 On Progress in Automated Conjecture-Making Craig Larson, University of Houston 9:45 - 10:25 McKays canonical construction path method. An example: Posets Gunnar Brinkmann, University of Bielefeld 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:40 Research in machine learning Susan Epstein, Hunter College 11:45 - 12:25 Techniques for searching for maximum independent sets Wendy Myrvold, University of Victoria 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:25 Some applications of graph theory in chemistry, or What do chemists want from mathematicians, and what can they give in return? Patrick Fowler, Exeter University 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 3:40 Lab demo of Graph Dragan Stevanovic, University of Nis, Yugoslavia 3:45 - 4:25 Polyhedral properties and duals of benzenoid indices Hernan Abeledo, George Washington University 4:30 - 5:00 Bounds on the stability number of a graph Gabriela Alexe, Rutcor, Rutgers University 5:00 - 5:20 Time for interaction; software made available Thursday November 15, 2001 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 - 9:40 Representation of Chemical Graphs, Maps and Polyhedra Tomasz Pisanski, University of Ljubljiana 9:45 - 10:25 Construction of combinatorial structures, a theoretical approach Reinhard Laue, University of Bayreuth 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:40 Computer generated conjectures in mathematical chemistry Siemion Fajtlowicz, University of Houston 11:45 - 12:25 Chemical Evolution Robert Nachbar, Merck Research Laboratories 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Informal Discussion 2:00 - 2:40 CAR: Computer-Aided Research of Integral Graphs Dragan Stevanovic, University of Nis, Yugoslavia 2:45 - 3:30 Time for interaction; software made available 3:30 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 4:40 Encoding fullerenes and geodesic domes Jack Graver, Syracuse University 4:40 - 5:30 Panel discussion on ideas generated by the working group Friday November 16, 2001 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 - 9:40 Puzzles, Graphs and Graph Generators Dennis Shasha, New York University 9:45 - 10:25 Constraint graph generation for mathematical chemistry Reinhard Laue, University of Bayreuth 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:40 An Application Framework for Combinatorial Algorithms Sandra Kingan, Pennsylvania State University 11:45 - 12:25 Minimum Total Distance d-trees Maolin Zheng, Frictionless 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - Conference ends, people can stay for informal discussion.