Programme

Please note that this is only a tentative schedule. It is likely to change.

Wednesday 15 August 2012
10:00 – 10:55	Registration. Warwick Mathematics Institute. Tea and Coffee available
10:55 – 11:00	Opening
Invited talk. Room MS.01
11:00 – 12:00	Andrew Thomason University of Cambridge	Hypergraph Containers
12:00 – 12:10	Break
First Session. Room MS.01 (Chair: Robert Schumacher)
12:10 - 12:35	Aistis Atminas University of Warwick	Well-quasi-ordering of Subquadratic Classes
12:35 - 13:00	Pierre Aboulker LIAFA	2-Clock-free Graphs
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch (photo at 13:50) - Undergraduate Common Room

Second Session. Room MS.01 (Chair: Adam Bohn)
14:00 – 14:25	Liam Harris University of Glamorgan	Theocracy on the Chessboard; Bishop Independence and Domination
14:25 – 14:50	Darryl Green Royal Holloway, University of London	Merging Secret Sharing Schemes
14:50 – 15:15	Andrei-Alin Popescu University of East Anglia	Lassoing Rooted Phylogenetic Trees
15:15 – 15:45	Tea and Coffee
Third Session. Room MS.01 (Chair: Andrew Collins)
15:45 – 16:10	Robert Powell Durham University	Skew Bisubmodularity and Valued CSPs
16:10 – 16:35	Robert Crowston Royal Holloway, University of London	Parameterized Study of the Test Cover Problem
16:35 – 16:50	Anne Hillebrand University of Oxford	Reverse Radar and the K₁,K₂-model

Thursday 16 August 2012
Invited talk. Room MS.01
9:30 – 10:30	Stefanie Gerke Royal Holloway, University of London	Random Graph Processes
10:30 – 11:00	Tea and Coffee
First Session. Room MS.01 (Chair: Aistis Atminas)
11:00 – 11:25	Andrew McDowell Royal Holloway, University of London	Non-vertex Balanced Factors in Random Graphs
11:25 – 11:50	Fiona Skerman Oxford University	Row and Column Sums of Random 0-1 Matrices
11:50 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 12:25	Michał Przykucki University of Cambridge	Maximum Percolation Time in Bootstrap Percolation
12:25 – 12:50	Annika Heckel University of Oxford	Anomalous Behaviour of Biased Random Walks in Random Environments
12:50 – 13:50	Lunch - Undergraduate Common Room

Second Session. Room MS.01 (Chair: Neville Ball)
13:50 – 14:15	Kerstin Weller University of Oxford	Coloured Forests - A Partially Bridge-addable Class
14:15 – 14:40	Basile Morcrette INRIA and LIP6	Exactly Solvable Pólya Urn Models via Analytic Combinatorics
14:40 – 15:05	Matthew Wells University of Essex	On Sets with more Restricted Sums than Differences
15:05 – 15:35	Tea and Coffee
Third Session. Room MS.01 (Chair: Anne Hillebrand)
15:35 – 16:00	Fiachra Knox University of Birmingham	Embedding Spanning Bipartite Graphs of Small Bandwidth
16:00 – 16:25	Katherine Staden University of Birmingham	Approximate Hamilton Decompositions of Robustly Expanding Digraphs
16:25 – 16:50	John Lapinskas University of Birmingham	Optimal Packings of Hamilton Cycles in Graphs of High Minimum Degree

Friday 17 August 2012
Invited talk. Room MS.01
9:30 – 10:30	Konrad Swanepoel LSE	Unit Vectors with Small Subset Sums in Normed Spaces
10:30 – 11:00	Tea and Coffee
First Session. Room MS.01 (Chair: Fiona Skerman)
11:00 – 11:25	David Bevan The Open University	Skinny Permutation Grid Classes
11:25 – 11:50	Stuart Hannah University of Strathclyde	Quicksort and Permutation Patterns
11:50 – 12:15	Christopher Harden University of Essex	Fixed-point Polynomials
12:15 – 12:25	Break
12:25 – 12:50	Adam Bohn Queen Mary, University of London	Imaginary Evaluations of the Chromatic Polynomial
12:50 – 13:15	Robert Schumacher City University	Acyclic Orientations of Graphs
13:15 – 14:15	Lunch