Paul Erdös Memorial Lecture Series

University of Memphis
March 23-24, 2007

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Paul Erdos


Schedule

Erdos Memorial Lecture and "Erdos for Beginners"
Friday, March 23, 2007
Fedex Technology Building, The Zone
3:45pm - 5:30pm

Combinatorics Conference:
Dunn Hall, Room 351
Friday, March 23, 2007, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Saturday, March 24, 2007, 9:00am - 4:30pm 


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Schedule

Friday, 23 March 2007

Dunn Hall, Rm. 245

8:00am             Registration

 

Combinatorics Conference

Dunn Hall, Room 351

Chairman:         Cecil Rousseau

2:00pm             Extremal Problems for Partially Ordered Sets  - William Trotter

2:45pm             Refreshments served in Dunn Hall, Room 336

 

The Mathematics of Paul Erdős for Non-mathematicians

Federal Express Technology Bldg., The Zone

Chairman:         Béla Bollobás

3:45pm             Erdős for Beginners -András Gyárfás             

 

2007  Erdős Memorial Lecture

Federal Express Technology Bldg., The Zone

4:15pm             Mathematics and Physics – Peter Lax

6:00pm             Dinner at Romano’s Macaroni Grill, 6705 Poplar Avenue

7:30pm             After dinner drinks in the home of Béla and Gabriella Bollobás,

                                    1644 Neshoba Trace Cove, Germantown, TN

 

 

Saturday, 24 March 2007

Combinatorics Conference

Dunn Hall, Room 351

First Session

Chairman:         Vlado Nikiforov

9:30am             Critical Random Graphs: Diameter and Mixing TimeYuval Peres

10:15am           Random Cellular Automata Mark Walters

11:00am           Refreshments served in Dunn Hall,  Room 336

11:15am           Conference Photograph

11:30am           Sparse Regularity – Stefanie Gerke

12:15pm           On Ore-type Graph Packing Problems – Alexandr Kostochka

1:00pm           Lunch

 

Second Session

Chairman:         Jim Jamison

2:15pm             Linear Forests, k-Ordered and Pancyclic Graphs- Ralph Faudree

3:00pm             Edge Percolation on a Random Regular Graph of Low Degree

 – Boris Pittel

3:45pm             Refreshments served in Dunn Hall, Room 336

4:15pm             Multiplicatively Large Sets and Ramsey Theory Vitaly Bergelson

5:00pm             Some Problems and Solutions Somewhat in the Spirit of Erdős – Peter Lax

                                    Party in the home of Provost Ralph and Pat Faudree,

                                    5370 Normandy, Memphis, TN

 


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