Program -- Brylawski Memorial Conference

All talks will take place in Phillips Hall, room 332.

Friday, Oct. 17, 2008

1:00 - 2:30
Registration -- Phillips 330

2:30 - 3:00
Colloquium tea

3:00 - 3:50
Colloquium: Increasing and decreasing subsequences
Richard Stanley, MIT

4:00 - 4:50
A partially anecdotal history of matroid theory
This lecture was recorded in November of 2006 at the University of Montana
Thomas Brylawski

5:30 - ?
Fluid Dynamics Seminar
Pantana Bob's

Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

9:00 - 9:50
Some Problems about the Tutte Polynomial and its Specialisations
Dominic Welsh, Oxford University

9:55 - 10:15
The matroids that are binary or ternary
James Oxley, LSU

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:10
Brylawski's lost notes: Generalized duality and deletion-contraction
Gary Gordon, Lafayette College

11:15 - 11:35
Fixing and distinguishing numbers for matroids
Jennifer McNulty, University of Montana

11:40 - 12:00
Bell and Stirling Numbers for Graphs
Rhodes Peele, Auburn University Montgomery

12:05 - 12:25
Radon Partitions in Families of Sets
Robert E. Jamison, Clemson University and University of Haifa

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:50
Binary matroid minors
James Geelen, University of Waterloo

2:55 - 3:15
Tutte functions
Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University (SUNY)

3:20 - 3:50 Coffee Break

3:50 - 4:10
The double majorization order
Curtis Greene, Haverford College

4:15 - 4:35
The matroid of lines in space
Neil White, University of Florida

4:40 - 5:00
Infinite log-concavity
Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University

5:05 - 5:25
Splices of Matroids
Joseph Bonin, George Washington University

5:30 - 5:50
On circuit sizes in binary matroids
Talmage James Reid, University of Mississippi

7:30 - 10:00 Conference Banquet

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008

9:00 - 9:20
Evolutionary stability and population dynamics for symmetric games
Douglas G. Kelly, University of North Carolina

9:25 - 9:45
Sudoku: Strategy versus structure
J. Scott Provan, University of North Carolina

9:50 - 10:10
Clones and Minors in Matroids
Carla Cotwright, Hampton University

10:15 - 10:35
Equivariant classes of matroid realization spaces
Richard Rimanyi, University of North Carolina

10:35 - 11:05 Coffee Break

11:05 - 11:25
Organizing Fundamental Combinatorial Counts
Robert A. Proctor, University of North Carolina

11:30 - 11:50
Characterizing 3-connected planar graphs and graphic matroids
Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi

11:55 - 12:15
From Here to Eternity: Embeddings of Geometric Lattices as Sublattices of Partition Lattices
Henry Crapo, Centre de Recherche du Larzac Méridional