Workshop Programme
for period 21-25 January
Zeros of Chromatic, Flow and Other Polynomials
21-25 January
Timetable
| Monday 21 January | ||
| 08:30-09:55 | Registration | CSM |
| 09:55-10:00 | Welcome - David Wallace | CSM |
| 10:00-11:00 | Sokal, A (New York) | CSM |
| Complex zeros of the chromatic and Tutte polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Jackson, B (QMUL) | CSM |
| Real zeros of chromatic and flow polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch at Churchill College | CSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Thomassen, C (Technical University of Denmark) | CSM |
| Chromatic polynomials and a second Hamiltonian cycle | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:00 | Alikhani, S (Inspem, University Putra Malaysia) | CSM |
| Chromatic roots and fibonacci numbers | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Morgan, K (Monash) | CSM |
| Chromatic factorisation of graphs | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Welcome Wine Reception | CSM |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner at Churchill College | CSM |
| Tuesday 22 January | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Royle, G (Western Australia) | CSM |
| Constructive resolution of two conjectures on real chromatic roots | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:00 | Brown, J (Dalhousie) | CSM |
| On the zeros of independence and open set polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Markstrom, K (Umea) | CSM |
| Bounds for the numner of matchings in regular graphs | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch at Churchill College | CSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Dong, FM (Nanyang Technological ) | CSM |
| On graphs whose chromatic polynomials have no zeros in (1,2) | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:00 | Winkler, J (Sheffield) | CSM |
| New methods for solving high degree polynomial equations that have multiple roots | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Faris, WG (Arizona) | CSM |
| The calculus of combinatorial constructions and Hopf algebras | Sem 1 | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner at Churchill College | CSM |
| Wednesday 23 January | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Fernandez, R (Rouen) | CSM |
| Cluster expansions for hard-core systems: I introduction | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Fernandez, R (Rouen) | CSM |
| Cluster expansions for hard-core systems: II convergence criteria | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch at Churchill College | CSM |
| 14:00-14:30 | Zahradnik, M (Charles ) | CSM |
| A simple resummation method for cluster expansions | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Wagner, D (Waterloo) | CSM |
| Enumeration of spanning subgraphs with degree constraints | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:00 | Holtz, OV (Berkeley) | CSM |
| On polynomials arising from zonotopal algebra | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Sarmiento, I (Roma Tor Vergata) | CSM |
| The topological Tutte polynomials of Bollobas and Riordan: properties and relations to other graph polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Borcea, J (Stockholm) | CSM |
| Geometry of polynomials and applications | Sem 1 | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner at Churchill College | CSM |
| Thursday 24 January | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Scott, A (Oxford) | CSM |
| Independent sets, lattice gases and the Loavsz Local Lemma | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:00 | Janson, S (Uppsala) | CSM |
| Zeros of truncated binomial polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch at Churchill College | CSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Shrock, R (SUNY-Stony Brook) | CSM |
| Zeros of chromatic and Tutte (Potts) polynomials and general Ising model, and their accumulation sets for families of graphs | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:00 | Chang, S-C (Cheng Kung) | CSM |
| Zeros of graph-counting polynomials and their accumulation sets | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Bielak, H (Maria Curie-Sklodowska) | CSM |
| Chromatic zeros for some recursively defined families of graphs | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Slawny, J (Virginia Tech) | CSM |
| Self-dual spin systems, zeros of partition function, and error correcting codes | Sem 1 | |
| 19:30-23:00 | Conference Dinner at Emmanuel College | CSM |
| Friday 25 January | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Biggs, N (London School of Economics) | CSM |
| Complex roots of chromatic polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | CSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Jacobsen, J (Paris-Sud) | CSM |
| Representations and partition function zeros of the Potts model with and without boundaries | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch at Churchill College | CSM |
| 14:00-14:30 | Tanguy, C (Orange Labs) | CSM |
| Dominant traits in the zeros of two-variate two-terminal reliability polynomials | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Smyth, C (Edinburgh) | CSM |
| Integer symmetric matrices with spectral radius at most 2.019 | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea | CSM |
| 15:30-16:30 | Problem session | CSM |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner at Churchill College | CSM |
| Other Seminars |
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