January 29 Dr. Dan Tamir, Department of Computer Science
Time, space, and solution quality tradeoffs in combinatorial optimization algorithms.
February 5 Dr. Jian Shen, Mathematics Department.
Generalization of the Friendship Theorem.
February 19 Dr. Ralucca Gera, Naval Postgraduate School.
Graph theory applications to Google search.
February 26 Huhui Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Packing of Steiner trees and S-connectors in graphs.
March 5 Dr. Chao Yang, Mathematics Department.
Sliding Puzzles and Rotating Puzzles on Graphs.
March 19 Dr. David Morton, Graduate Program in Operations Research, UT-Austin.
Interdicting Nuclear Smugglers.
March 26 Dr. Robert Ogden, Computer Science Department.
The Encoding of Natural Numbers as Nested Parentheses Strings.
April 2 Dr. Eugene Curtin, Mathematics Department.
April 9 Dr. Brian Miceli, Trinity University.
Generalized Stirling Numbers & Rook Theory.
April 16 Yong Yang.
Regular Orbits Of Nilpotent Subgroups Of Solvable Groups.
April 23 Dr. Eunjeong Yi, Texas A&M at Galveston.
Functigraphs: An Extension of Permutation Graphs.
April 30 Dr. Nathaniel Dean, Mathematics Department.