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 Spring 2008 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 Williams Hall 330 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.

Spring 2008

  • Meeting 8 (Thursday Apr. 17): Michal Moryane (Wroclaw University of Technology), Universal Best Choice Algorithm
  • (This talk has been CANCELLED)

  • Meeting 7 (Thursday Apr. 10): Fusun Akman (ISU), Sudoku Graphs and the Polynomials Who Color Them
  • Meeting 6 (Thursday Apr. 3): Roger Eggleton (ISU), New Results on the Principal Divisor Ranks of Consecutive Integers
  • Meeting 5 (Thursday Mar. 20): Pete Johnson (Auburn U.), Coloring the edges of complete graphs so as to avoid rainbow cycles
  • Meeting 4 (Thursday Feb. 14): Roger Eggleton (ISU), The 6666 problem and Infinite rooted trees
  • Meeting 3 (Thursday Feb. 07): Sylwia Cichacz (AGH University, Poland), Factorization of Kn,n into (0,j)-prisms
  • Meeting 2 (Thursday Jan. 31): Donald Mills (ISU), Polynomials Built Using Fibonacci Numbers
  • Meeting 1 (Thursday Jan. 24): Charlie Vanden Eynden (ISU), Penrose's Puzzle Pieces (Part II)
  • Past Seminars


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    Faculty Members


    Visitors

    Current and Past Visitors


    Teaching

    Discrete Mathematics Courses


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