5th Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory

University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

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Abstract

The 5th Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory will be held at the University of Notre Dame on April 21--22 2018. The workshop will benefit graduate students and junior researchers in the field of discrete mathematics, working at institutions in the Great Lakes area. It is built around two sets of three tutorial lectures, focusing on state-of-the-art techniques and results that the speakers feel are underrepresented in typical graduate sequences, and on emerging techniques on which the speakers are particularly qualified to expound. There will also be short talks by students and younger faculty members. There will be ample unscheduled time during the weekend, allowing new research collaborations to commence and active collaborations to be continued. Junior participants will establish valuable connections with more senior colleagues, and receive guidance from them in a relaxed and informal environment. The tutorial speakers for the 2018 workshop will talk about "Connections between Coxeter systems, permutation patterns and reduced words", and "Edit distance in graphs". The website for the conference is https://www3.nd.edu/~conf/lmwcgt18/.