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Combinatorics Colloquium 2006
There will be a 2-day Combinatorics Colloquium at Reading University on May 17th and May 18th 2006 to celebrate 50 years of Combinatorics at Reading University.

The programme is now finalised and can be found via the link below. Our speakers are also listed here along with a link to an abstract for each talk.

Click here for a pdf file of the Colloquium Programme.

Speakers and Abstracts
Ron Aharoni (Technion) - A topological method in matching theory
Lars Andersen (Aalborg) - On Completing Partial Latin Squares with Prescribed Diagonal
Ian Anderson (Glasgow) - Referee Squares
Norman Biggs (LSE)- The critical group revisited
Adrian Bondy (Lyons) - An Overview of the Caccetta-Häggkvist Conjecture
Peter Cameron (QMUL) - The Rado graph and the Urysohn space
Gregory Gutin (RHUL) - Dichotomy for the minimum cost graph homormorphism problem
John Goldwasser (West Virginia) - Maximum size antichains and the COLEX order
Curt Lindner (Auburn, Alabama) - The triangle intersection problem for subgraphs of K4
R. Häggkvist (Umea) - Orthogonal latin rectangles
Bill Jackson (QMUL) - Rigidity of molecular frameworks
P.D. Johnson, Jr. (Auburn, Alabama) - List Colouring Graphs with Functions
Donald Keedwell (Surrey) - On Sudoku Squares
Imre Leader (Cambridge) Euclidean Ramsey Theory
Dragan Marusic (Ljubljana) - Vertex-Transitive Graphs: Semiregular Automorphisms and Hamiltonian Paths
George Purdy (Cincinnati) - Congruent and Similar Subsets in d-space
Neil Robertson (Ohio State) - Open Problems in Well-Quasi-Ordering
Andrew Thomason (Cambridge) - Edge weights and vertex colours
Vadim Zverovich (UWE) - The Computer System GRAPHOGRAPH


Registration and Dinner
If you intend to come to the colloquium, please would you let me know by May 13th. There is no registration fee. You are welcome to come to the dinner on 17th May. This will be at a nearby Indian restaurant, the Sirdar Palace, at Cemetery Junction within easy walking distance of the University. The cost will be £15 (£8 for students and seniors; free for invited speakers). If you wish to come please let me know by 13th May and send me a cheque, payable to the University of Reading.

A.J.W.Hilton@reading.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor Anthony Hilton
Department of Mathematics,
University of Reading,
Whiteknights,
Reading RG6 6AX

There may be a limited amount of financial assistance available upon application to myself. Please use the contact details above.

Acknowledgement
We acknowledge with thanks the generous support of the British Combinatorics Committee and the London Mathematical Society.

Accommodation
Some rooms have been reserved in Black Horse House for the invited speakers. I would be glad if other people would make their own accommodation arrangements. The University's Accommodation service (see link below) includes quite a lot that is within easy walking distance of the University. Please only contact me or Brigitte Calderon (b.calderon@reading.ac.uk) in the case of genuine difficulty.
Accommodation Service

Transport
Reading is easily accessible by road and rail. Click here for the University's transport website, which has maps and information.



 
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