Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences - PIMS

The meeting consists of a sequence of contributed talks of 30-45 minutes in
length. Some speaking slots may still be available. 

Saturday morning
9:00 am    Coffee and goodies
9:30 am    Rick Brewster (Thompson Rivers University): Solution to the restricted homomorphism conjecture
10:05 am    Laura Yang (University of Alberta): Postnikov's Identity and its Generalizations
10:40 am    Aaron Williams (UVic): Generating multi-set permutations in a cool way
11:15 am    Luis Goddyn (SFU): Vanishing Bases in Projective Geometries
Lunch: 11:45 to 1:30
Saturday afternoon
1:30 pm    Wendy Myrvold (UVic): Ally and Adversary Reconstruction Numbers
2:05 PM    Tom Brown (SFU): On colorings of the factors of a word
2:40 pm    Gara Pruesse (Malaspina): A new proof for Knuth's old sum
3:05 pm    Break
3:30 pm    Moshe Rosenfeld (U. Washington): Famous and lesser known problems in "elementary" combinatorial geometry
4:30 pm    Mohammad Ghebleh (SFU): Computing the circular chromatic number
Sunday morning
9:00 am    Coffee and goodies
9:30 am    Joe Peters (SFU): Constructing Incremental Sequences in Graphs
10:05 am    Frank Ruskey (UVic): Hamming distance from an irreducible polynomial
10:40 am    Art Finbow (St. Mary's): Remarks on Well-Covered Graphs of Girth 4
11:15 am    Petr Lisonek (SFU): Planar Eulerian triangulations are equivalent to spherical latin bitrades
Lunch: 11:45 to 1:30
Sunday afternoon
1:30 pm    Mark Weston (UVic): Symmetries of Venn Diagrams Embedded on the Sphere
2:05 pm    Brett Stevens (Carleton): Locating and avoiding errors in software testing
2:40 pm    Stephen Finbow (StFX): Open-Open Irredundance
3:15 pm    Gary MacGillivray (UVic): Fractional maximal independent sets in graphs