The Atlanta Lecture Series on Combinatorics and Graph Theory is a series of three mini-conferences hosted jointly by Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University. As the various areas of combinatorics and graph theory have matured, many new techniques and ground-breaking results have been established. Often these break-throughs are relevant to other areas of mathematics or other disciplines. Techniques and results in combinatorics and graph theory have greatly impacted such fields as computer science, bioinformatics, transportation and communication network theory, topology, algebra and computational matrix theory to name just a few.
The areas to be covered by these conferences include, but are not limited to extremal, algebraic and probabilistic combinatorics and graph theory, as well as structural and topological graph theory. These interdisciplinary meetings will focus on the interplay of results across areas including extremal graph and hypergraph theory, random graphs, structural graph theory, topological graph theory, poset theory, probabilistic combinatorics, domination theory and graph algorithms. It is expected that the conference will also promote deeper collaborations among researchers from the surrounding region, as well as build both the knowledge base and set of potential collaborators for participating young researchers and graduate students.
is a series of three mini-conferences on Combinatorics and Graph Theory to be held in Atlanta each year for three academic years covering the time period Fall 2010 to May 2013. These conferences will be rotated among three major research universities in Atlanta: Emory University, The Georgia Institute of Technology, and Georgia State University. The meetings will be scheduled in November, February, and April, respectively. Each mini-conference features one distinguished researcher who will present two one-hour lectures, as well as four one-hour lectures presented by leading researchers, primarily from the southeast region, and four 25-minute talks by junior researchers and graduate students. All meetings will start on a Saturday afternoon and end on Sunday in the early afternoon, allowing participants to travel to and from neighboring schools. The second of a series of mini-conference, the Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory II (ALSII), was held at Georgia State University on February 26-27, 2011. The conference featured {it two one-hour talks by Alexandr Kostochka}, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as hour talks by Paul Balister, University of Memphis; Jerry Griggs, University of South Carolina; Vladimir Nikiforov, University of Memphis, Wenan Zang, University of Hong Kong. These talks were supplemented by 25 minute talks by Hein van der Holst, Georgia Institute of Technology; Zhiquan Hu, Central Normal University; John Maharry, Ohio State University; Hehui Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Gexin Yu, College of William and Mary. The fourth of a series of mini-conference, the Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory (ALS-IV), was held at Georgia State University on November, 2011. The conference featured {it two one-hour talks by B'ela Bollob'as}, University of Memphis and Cambridge University, as well as hour talks by Michael Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver; Lincoln Lu, University of South Carolina; Akira Saito, Nihon University; Bing Wei, University of Mississippi, Douglas , University of Illinois at Urbana Champaing. These talks were supplemented by 25 minute talks by Neal Bushaw, University of Memphis; Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina; Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver; Peter Komjath, Emory University and Eotvos University; Jie Ma, University of California, Los Angeles; Michal Przkucki, Cambridge University; and Andrew Uzzell, University of Memphis. Thus, as proposed, the mini-conference featured one of the top combinatorialists in the world and four other major researchers, as well as provided an opportunity for some young faculty and graduate students to present their research. As such, we met all our goals stated in the proposal. A full schedule and the abstracts for each talk can be found on the conference web page at: http://www2.gsu.edu/~matgtc/conference.htm
