Discrete Mathematics at ISU (DISCMATH)

Discrete Mathematics at ISU (DISCMATH)


The Mathematics Department at Illinois State University (ISU) has a strong Discrete Mathematics Group. The group, usually called DISCMATH for brevity, is very active in research and professional service, as well as providing enthusiastic and dedicated teaching for students at master's level and all undergraduate levels.

The DISCMATH group convenes a regular weekly seminar program, which runs throughout the Fall and Spring semesters and logs around 20-30 talks each academic year. Meetings last 50 minutes, followed by a 20 minutes informal social gathering. Most talks report on recent results or research in progress, but occasional expository and survey talks are included. Speakers usually are ISU faculty members of DISCMATH, but also include graduate students, invited speakers from other institutions, and visitors to the ISU Mathematics Department (often the Department hosts one or more longer term visitors in Discrete Mathematics).



Mathematics Conference at ISU

24th Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing

In Honor of Roger B. Eggleton, September 10-12, 2010

Past Mathematics Conferences at ISU

Conference in Honor of Charlie Vanden Eynden



Discrete Mathematics Seminar

For the Fall 2009 semester, the talks are given on Thursdays, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m., in Stevenson Hall 131. Immediately after the seminar, all participants are invited to Stevenson Hall 313 D for 20 minutes of social get-together, coffee or tea, and cookies. Follow the links below for further information on specific talks. If you want to give a talk, please send an email to roger[at]ilstu[dot]edu.

  • Meeting 4 (Thursday Nov. 19): Michelle Sherman (Undergraduate student, ISU), Gamma-Labelings of Some Almost Bipartite Graphs
  • Meeting 4 (Thursday Oct. 22): Michael Plantholt (ISU), Conditions for an Anti-directed Cycle in a Directed Graph
  • Meeting 3 (Thursday Oct. 15): Heather Jordon (ISU), Skolem-type Difference Sets for Cycle Systems
  • Meeting 2 (Thursday Oct. 8): Papa Sissokho (ISU), Irreducible Matrices
  • Meeting 1 (Thursday Oct. 1): Arno van den Essen (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), A Journey Through Magic Squares
  • Past Seminars


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    Faculty Members


    Visitors

    Current and Past Visitors


    Teaching

    Discrete Mathematics Courses


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    Last modified: Oct. 2009
  • This web page is based on an earlier version by Saad El-Zanati and Roger Eggleton.