Speaker 1: Caleb Jones, Memorial University   Title: Extending Graph Burning to Hypergraphs   Abstract: We introduce a round-based model much like graph burning which applies to hypergraphs. The rules for this new model are very natural,and generalize the original model

Approximation Schemes for Resource Minimization for Fire Containment Resource Minimization Fire Containment (RMFC) is a natural model for optimal inhibition of harmful spreading phenomena on a graph. In the RMFC problem on trees, we are given an undirected tree G,

Approximation Schemes for Resource Minimization for Fire Containment The semi-random graph process is an example of an adaptive process for constructing a graph in which random edges are added step by step.  It is adaptive in that there is an

Time: 3.30pm, Atlantic time, Wednesday Sept.20 Speaker: Jessica McDonald, Auburn University Title: On flows (and group-connectivity) in signed graphs Abstract: In this talk we'll start by discussing flows in signed graphs and how it generalizes the usual notion of integer

Speaker: Iain Beaton, Acadia University Title: On the Unimodality of Nearly-Well Dominated Trees Abstract: A polynomial is said to be unimodal if its coefficients are non-decreasing and then non-increasing. The domination polynomial of a graph G is the generating function of the number

Two short talks by grad students Alex Clow and William Kellough. 'Live' viewing in Chase 227 for those at Dalhousie. Talk 1: Alex Clow, Simon Fraser University Polynomially Bounding the Oriented Chromatic Number in Euler Genus In this talk we

Detecting (Di)Graphical Regular Representations Speaker: Joy Morris, U. Lethbridge Abstract: Graphical and Digraphical Regular Representations (GRRs and DRRs) are a concrete way to visualise the regular action of a group, using (di)graphs. More precisely, a GRR or DRR on the

Speaker:  Santiago Guzman-Pro, TU Dresden Title:          Forbidden Tournaments and the Orientation (Completion) Problem Abstract:   For a fixed finite set of  oriented graphs F,  the F-free  orientation problem asks whether a given finite undirected graph G has an F-free orientation,

Speaker: Jordan Barrett, Toronto Metropolitan University Title: Graph burning, the burning number conjecture, and burning density Abstract: Graph burning is a discrete time process on a graph that acts as a simple model for the spread of social contagion in a network.

Speaker:  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University Title:         Forts, (fractional) zero forcing, and Cartesian products of graphs Abstract: Zero forcing is an iterative process that repeatedly applies a rule to change the color of vertices of a graph $G$