CSMW01
21 January 2008 to 25 January 2008
The workshop will study the zero distribution of polynomials canonically associated to graphs. Examples include the chromatic polynomial, the reliability polynomial, the Tutte polynomial, the independent-set polynomial and the matching polynomial. From the point of view of statistical physics, these polynomials are nothing other than the partition functions of standard statistical-mechanical models (e.g. the Ising model, the Potts model, the lattice gas, the monomer-dimer model) living on the graph. Combinatorialists study the real and complex zeros of such polynomials to ascertain how they are related to the combinatorial properties of the underlying graph (planarity, chromatic number, maximum degree, connectivity, etc.). The questions being investigated thus arise naturally from combinatorics; but key elements of the intuition needed for their solution typically come from statistical physics, in particular from the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena.
The workshop will bring together some of the principal researchers in this field to review recent advances and to brainstorm concerning the many unsolved problems. It will also feature tutorial seminars describing the main results and proof techniques, such as deletion/contraction, the multivariate approach, cluster expansion, and transfer matrices. The topics will be of interest to combinatorial mathematicians, mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists and computer scientists.
Monday 21st January 2008 | |||
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08:30 to 09:55 | No Room Required | ||
09:55 to 10:00 | Room 1 | ||
10:00 to 11:00 |
Alan Sokal |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
David Jackson University of Waterloo |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:45 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Carsten Thomassen Technical University of Denmark |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Saeid Alikhani Universiti Putra Malaysia |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 |
Kerri Morgan Monash University |
Room 1 | |
16:30 to 17:30 | No Room Required | ||
18:00 to 19:00 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 22nd January 2008 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Gordon Royle University of Western Australia |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:00 |
Jason I Brown Dalhousie University |
Room 1 | |
12:00 to 12:30 |
Klas Markström Umeå University |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:45 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Fengming Dong Nanyang Technological University |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Joab Winkler University of Sheffield |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 |
William Faris University of Arizona |
Room 1 | |
18:00 to 19:00 | No Room Required |
Wednesday 23rd January 2008 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Roberto Fernandez Université de Rouen |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Roberto Fernandez Université de Rouen |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:45 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:30 |
Milos Zahradnik Charles University, Prague |
Room 1 | |
14:30 to 15:00 |
David Wagner University of Waterloo |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Olga Holtz Technische Universität Berlin |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 |
Irasema Sarmiento Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata |
Room 1 | |
16:30 to 17:30 |
Julius Borcea Stockholm University |
Room 1 | |
18:00 to 19:00 | No Room Required |
Thursday 24th January 2008 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Alexander Scott University of Oxford |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:00 |
Svante Janson Uppsala Universitet |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:45 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Robert Shrock State University of New York |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Shu-Chiuan Chang National Cheng Kung University |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 |
Halina Bielak Maria Curie-Sklodowska University |
Room 1 | |
16:30 to 17:00 |
Joseph Slawny Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Room 1 | |
19:30 to 23:00 | No Room Required |
Friday 25th January 2008 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Norman Biggs London School of Economics |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Jesper Jacobsen Université Paris Saclay |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:45 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 14:30 |
Christian Tanguy |
Room 1 | |
14:30 to 15:00 |
Chris Smyth University of Edinburgh |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:30 | Room 1 | ||
18:00 to 19:00 | No Room Required |
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