Schedule for: 23w2008 - Alberta-Montana Combinatorics and Algorithms Day

Beginning on Friday, June 23 and ending Sunday June 25, 2023

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Friday, June 23
16:00 - 19:30 Check-in begins (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre - open 24 hours)
Note: the Lecture rooms are available after 16:00.
(Front Desk – Professional Development Centre)
19:30 - 22:00 Lectures (if desired) or informal gathering in TCPL (if desired)
Beverages and a small assortment of snacks are available in the lounge on a cash honour system.
(TCPL)
Saturday, June 24
07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast
A buffet breakfast is served daily between 7:00am and 9:00am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:15 - 08:30 Welcome Talk by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
08:30 - 08:55 Davoud Abdi: Counterexamples to Conjectures of Thommassé and Bonato-Tardif, what is next?
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:25 Martin Müller: Towards Efficient First-Principles Algorithms for Sums of Combinatorial Games (TCPL 201)
09:25 - 09:55 Ryan Hayward: Exploring Hex Solving with the Benze Hex Solver and DFPN Algorithm
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:25 Svenja Huntemann: Values, Temperatures, and Enumeration of Placement Games
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:55 Mahya Jamshidian: On improving approximation factors for Minimum Sum of Radii, Diameters, and Squared Radii
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
A buffet lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 13:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
13:30 - 14:25 Stephanie Van Willigenburg: The (3+1)-free conjecture of chromatic symmetric functions
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
14:30 - 14:55 Zachary Friggstad: Approximating Minimum-Sum Colourings of Chordal Graphs
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:55 Caleb Van't Land: A Maximal Set of Unbiased Butson Hadamard Matrices
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:55 Dave Morris: On vertex-transitive graphs with a unique hamiltonian circle
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:25 Van Magnan: Flower Power
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(TCPL 201)
17:29 - 17:54 Amarpreet Rattan (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Sunday, June 25
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:30 - 09:25 Cory Palmer: A survey of extremal co-degree problems for hypergraphs
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
09:30 - 09:55 Anna Halfpap: General Properties of the Positive Co-degree Turán Number
See the workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11
2-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL) until 15:00 on Sunday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11 M. There is no coffee break service on Sunday afternoon, but self-serve coffee and tea are always available in the 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall.
(Front Desk – Professional Development Centre)
10:30 - 11:25 Rei Safavi-Naini: Key agreement for long term secure communication
See workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)
11:30 - 11:55 Daniel Johnston: Rainbow Saturation
See workshop webpage
(TCPL 201)