THE EIGHTEENTH CUMBERLAND CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE
HUNTVTILLE, ALABAMA
MAY 12-14, 2005

 


SCHEDULE OF TALKS(all talks given in MSB-100)

Thursday, May 12 (1:00-5:00 pm)

1:00-1:30

REGISTRATION(FREE)

1:30-2:00

        Yan Wang, UAH
Acquisition Numbers and Competitive-Acquisition Numbers

  2:00-2:30

Suk Seo, MTSU
Competitive Orientations of Graphs

   2:30-3:00

Break

  3:00-4:00

Ralph Stanton, ICA and U.Manitoba
A Survey of Packings

4:00-5:00

Unsolved Problems Session



Friday, May 13 (9:00 am - 5:00 pm)

9:00-9:30

Jill Simcox, McNeese State U.
A Note on Automorphisms of Steiner Triple Systems

9:30-10:00

        Alan Sprague, UAB
O(1) Query Time Algorithm for All Pairs Shortest Distances on Permutation Graphs

 10:00-10:30

Peter Hamburger, IUPU Fort Wayne
Ascending Path Subgraph Decompositions of Complete Bipartite Graphs

 10:30-11:00

Break

  11:00-12:00

Ron Gould, Emory U.
H-Linked Graphs and Hamiltonian Problems as Connectivity Questions

12:00-2:00

Lunch

  
   2:00-2:30
Johan Hattingh, Georgia State U.
The L(d,1)-hole Index of Paths and Cycles
  
   2:30-3:00
Peter Blanchard, Miami U. Ohio
Restricted Schur Numbers
 
   3:00-3:30
Anne Sinko, UAH
Influence Parameters on Chessboards
3:30-4:00
Break
   4:00-4:30 V. Voloshin, Troy State U.
On Quasi-triangulated Graphs
   4:30-5:00
Zi-Xia Song, Ohio State U.
Some Remarks on the Odd Case of Hadwiger's Conjecture



Saturday, May 14 (9:00 am-12:00 pm)

9:00-9:30

Paul Wollan, Georgia Tech
Disjoint Paths and Cycles in Group Labeled Graphs

9:30-10:00

        Ralph Faudree, U. Memphis
Generalizations of Dirac and Ore

 10:00-10:30

Mike Cropper, E. Kentucky U.
The Domination Numbers of Cubic Hamiltonian Graphs

   10:30-11:00

Terry McKee, Wright State U.
Chords and Connectivity

 11:00-12:00

Solved/unsolved Problems