DIMACS Working Group on Computer-Generated Conjectures from
Graph Theoretic and Chemical Databases II

Second Meeting: Computers and Discovery
June 2 - 5, 2004
HEC Montréal 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Montréal (Québec) Canada

Organizers:
Patrick Fowler, University of Exeter, P.W.Fowler@exeter.ac.uk
Pierre Hansen, GERAD - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Pierre.Hansen@gerad.ca
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Data Analysis and Mining.
Jointly sponsored by GERAD: Group for Research in Decision Analysis.

Working Group on Computer-Generated Conjectures from Graph Theoretic and Chemical Databases I .


Workshop Program:

This is a preliminary program.

Working Group Location:
chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montréal (Québec) H3T 2A7
Room Meloche Monnex, first floor (green section)

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

 9:00 -  9:05  Pierre Hansen, GERAD and HEC Montréal 
               Welcome 

 9:05 - 10:05  Jonathan M. Borwein, Dalhousie University, Canada 
               Experimentation in mathematics: computational paths to discovery 

10:05 - 10:35  Mark Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 
               Experimental Asymptotics: how much experimentation is enough 

10:35 - 11:00  Coffee break 

11:00 - 11:30  Gunnar Brinkmann, Gent University, Belgium 
               Generating benzenoids and fusenes with perfect matchings 

11:30 - 12:00  Mikhail Klin, University of Delaware, USA 
               Regular subgroups of collineation groups of proper finite loops: 
               From a computer experiment to an infinite series of examples. 

12:00 - 12:30  Hadrien Mélot, University of Mons, Belgium 
               Facet defining inequalities among graph invariants: the system GraPHedron 

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch break 

 2:00 -  3:00  Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, London, Great Britain 
               The robot scientist 

 3:00 -  3:30  Jack. E. Graver, Syracuse University, USA 
               The independence numbers of fullerenes and their duals 

 3:30 -  4:00  Coffee break 

 4:00 -  4:30  Hadrien Mélot, University of Mons, Belgium 
               Demonstration of system GraPHedron 

 4:30 -  5:30  Mikhail Klin, University of Delaware, USA 
               Demonstration of system COCO 
               Auditorium IBM (Rez-de-jardin) 

 5:30          Inauguration of HEC Data Mining Chair and Cocktail 
               Participants to the Workshop are kindly invited 

Thursday, June 3, 2004

 9:00 - 10:00  Patrick Langley, Stanford University, USA 
               Computational induction of explanatory process models 

10:00 - 10:30  Dragan Stevanovic, University of Nis, Serbia and Montenegro 
               Using NewGRAPH in research and teaching 

10:30 - 10:50  Coffee break 

10:50 - 11:50  Ermelinda Delavina, University of Houston, Texas, USA 
               The Dalmation heuristic 

11:50 - 12:20  Mustapha Aouchiche, École Polytechnique, Canada 
               Conjectures about average distance in graphs 

12:20 -  2:00  Lunch break 

 2:00 -  3:00  Shang-Ching Chou, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA 
               Machine proofs and discovery in geometries 

 3:00 -  3:30  Charles Audet, GERAD and École Polytechnique, Canada 
               Vincze's wife's octagon is suboptimal 

 3:30 -  4:00  Coffee break 

 4:00 -  4:30  David Avis, GERAD and McGill University, Canada 
               All meals for a dollar, Nash Equilibria and other vertex enumeration problems 

 4:30          Ermelinda Delavina, University of Houston, Texas, USA 
               Demonstration of system « Graffiti.pc » 

Friday, June 4, 2004

 9:00 - 10:00  David H. Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA 
               Experimental mathematics: discovering new formulas and theorems 

10:00 - 10:30  Simon Plouffe, Montréal, Canada 
               A search for a mathematical expression of mass ratio using a large database 

10:30 - 10:50  Coffee break 

10:50 - 11:20  Patrick W. Fowler, Exeter University, Great-Britain 
               Non-bonding orbitals: much ado about nothing 

11:20 - 11:50  Reinhard Laue, University of Bayreuth, Germany 
               Challenges for group actions from t-design construction problems 

11:50 - 12:20  Wendy Myrvold, University of Victoria, Canada 
               Generating small combinatorial objects 

12:20 -  2:00  Lunch break 

 2:00 -  3:00  Simon Colton, Imperial College, London, Great-Britain 
               The HR project - hits and misses 

 3:00 -  3:30  Nair Abreu, Federal University of Rio, Brazil 
               Bounds on the algebraic connectivity of a graph 

 3:30 -  4:00  Coffee break 

 4:00 -  4:30  Pierre Hansen, GERAD and HEC Montréal, Canada 
               Exploring graph theory with AutoGraphiX 
 
 4:30 -  5:00  Simon Colton, Imperial College, London, Great-Britain 
               Demonstration of system HR 

 5:00 -  6:00  Gilles Caporossi, GERAD and HEC Montréal, Canada 
               Demonstration of system AGX2 

 6:00          Room L'Oréal (rez-de-jardin) 
               Cocktail party followed by Conference Banquet 

Saturday June 5, 2004

 9:00 - 10:00  Mathieu Dutour, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 
               Zigzags and central circuits for 3- and 4-value plane graphs 

10:00 - 10:30  Yoshua Bengio, University of Montréal, Canada 
               Learning the density structure of high-dimensional data 

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee break 

11:00 - 11:30  Shengrui Wang, University of Sherbrooke, Canada 
               Cluster analysis on graph data 

11:30 - 12:00  Robert Cowen, Queens College, Flushing, NY, USA 
               Computer-assisted investigations for the paper «Odd Neighborhood 
               Transversals for Grid Graphs» 

12:00 - 12:30  Sandra Kingan, Penn State University, USA 
               Excluded minor results in matroids 

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch break 

 2:00 -  2:30  Vladimir Brankov, University of Nis, Serbia and Montenegro 
               NewGRAPH architecture 

 2:30 -  3:00  Dragan Stevanovic, University of Nis, Serbia and Montenegro 
               Demonstration of system NewGRAPH 

 3:00 -  3:30  Coffee break 

 3:30 -  4:00  Claudia Justus, Bielefeld University, Germany 
               Numbers of faces in disordered patches 

 4:00 	       Gilles Caporossi, GERAD and HEC Montréal, Canada 
               Automated proof of simple conjectures in graph theory 
 

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