Combinatorics Seminars
2001 – 2002


Address: Mathematics 253-37 | Caltech | Pasadena, CA 91125
Telephone: (626) 395-4335 | Fax: (626) 585-1728


  • Thursday, May 16, 2002
    Michael Mossinghoff (UCLA)
    Slicing the n-dimensional cube
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, May 9, 2002
    James Stein (Cal State, Long Beach)
    Ramsey redux: The Banach contraction principle
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, May 2, 2002
    Avner Magen (NEC Research)
    Compatible systems and rigidity
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, April 25, 2002
    A.A. Ivanov (Imperial College)
    On graphs which are locally a given graph
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, April 11, 2002
    Jeong Han Kim (Microsoft Research)
    Random regular graphs, random graphs, and couplings
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, March 7, 2002
    Tewodros Amdeberhan (DeVry College of Technology/DIMACS)
    Determinant through the looking glass
    11:00 am   //  159 Sloan

  • Thursday, February 21, 2002
    Richard Wilson (Caltech)
    k-wise set intersections and Hamming distances
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, February 7, 2002
    Peter Dukes (Caltech)
    Design inequalities from convex cones
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, January 31, 2002
    Xun Dong (Caltech)
    Signed posets and Hibi rings
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, December 6, 2001
    Harvey Friedman (Ohio State University)
    Enormous integers in real life
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, November 29, 2001
    Shahriar Shahriari (Pomona College)
    Surreal factorization
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Tuesday, November 20, 2001
    J. Maurice Rojas (Texas A&M University)
    Multivariate Descartes rule: Real, arithmetic, and algorithmic aspects
    11:00 a.m. // 153 Sloan
  • Thursday, November 15, 2001
    David Grynkiewicz (Caltech)
    Zero-sum generalized Ramsey theory: A problem of Bialostocki,
    Erdös, and Lefmann on sets with nondecreasing diameter

    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, November 8, 2001
    Xun Dong (Caltech)
    Bounded degree graph complexes
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, November 1, 2001
    Shawn Cokus (UCLA)
    Linear algebra through fuzzy glasses
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, October 25, 2001
    Peter Dukes (Caltech)
    Report on the 15th Mid-West Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography, and Computing
    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan
  • Thursday, October 18, 2001
    Vladimir Levenshtein (Russian Academy of Sciences)
    A universal bound for a covering in regular posets and
    its applications to pool testing

    11:00 a.m. // 159 Sloan

For further information, please contact Sara Mena at (626) 395-4335
or smena@its.caltech.edu.