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

Conference in Honor of Charlie Vanden Eynden


Discrete Mathematics Seminar

For the Fall 2008 semester, the talks are given on Thursdays, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m., in the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA 145). 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 11 (Thursday Nov. 20): Sunil Chebolu (ISU), Strongly Regular Graphs

  • Meeting 10 (Thursday Nov. 13): Heather Jordon (ISU), Some Applications of Graph Theory

  • Meeting 9 (Thursday Nov. 06): Papa Sissokho (ISU), Ramsey-type Problems

  • Meeting 8 (Thursday Oct. 30): Peter Horak (University of Washington at Tacoma), Graphs close to being Hamiltonian

  • Meeting 7 (Thursday Oct. 23): Michael Morrison (Wolfram Research), Mathematica 6 and Applications to Graph Theory

  • Meeting 6 (Thursday Oct. 16): Saad El-Zanati(ISU), Decomposing complete graphs into 2-regular graphs

  • Meeting 5 (Thursday Oct. 9): Roger Eggleton (ISU), Heterogeneous tree decompositions

  • Meeting 4 (Thursday Sept. 25): Shailesh Tipnis(ISU), Stable matchings

  • Meeting 3 (Thursday Sept. 18): Saad El-Zanati(ISU), Graph Labellings

  • Meeting 2 (Thursday Sept. 11): Mike Plantholt(ISU), Sufficient conditions on the degree sequence for a bipartite graph to be hamiltonian

  • Meeting 1 (Thursday Sept. 4): Roger Eggleton (ISU), Some Elegant Properties of Degree Sequences

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    Last modified: Fall 2008
  • This web page is based on an earlier version by Saad El-Zanati and Roger Eggleton.