Discrete Mathematics Day At WPI

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Schedule:

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• 9:00-9:50 am -- Light Breakfast, Salisbury Labs Lounge, Main Floor
• 9:50-10:00 am -- Welcome and Announcements
• 10:00-11:00 am -- Gretchen Matthews, Clemson University: Analyzing codes defined by sparse matrices
• 11:15 am - 12:15 pm -- Sara Billey, University of Washington: On the enumeration of tanglegrams and tangled chains
• 12:30-1:30 pm -- Lunch and Discussion, Higgins House
• 1:30-2:30 pm -- Steve Butler, Iowa State University: An introduction to the normalized Laplacian matrix
• 2:30-3:30 pm -- Dominique Guillot, Stanford University: Critical exponents of graphs
• 3:30-4:00 pm -- Coffee Break
• 4:00-5:00 pm -- Margaret Readdy, University of Kentucky: q-Combinatorics: A new view
• 6:00-8:00 pm -- Reception and Dinner (free to all conference participants)

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