The First Central Cornfields Combinatorial Conference happened virtually on May 24, 2021. The conference was held over Zoom, featuring junior mathematicians. Each speaker presented a topic of their choice, usually a research problem they are interested in. Talks were be about 10 minutes each. The event featured trainees from RTGs at Iowa State University and University of Illinois.
The Zoom link was be distributed to participants later via email. A related conference, CMPS 2021, between University of Montana and University of Illinois was on May 17, 2021. You coud have registered here to receive the zoom link for both conferences.
Times are in CENTRAL time
10:00-10:10 Daniel McGinnis (ISU): Line transversals for families of planar convex sets
10:12-10:22 Emily Heath (UIUC): Strengthening the Erdős-Szekeres theorem
10:24-10:34 Liz Sprangel (ISU): Rainbow matchings in hypergraphs
10:36- 10:46 Souktik Roy (UIUC): New bounds for Sidon sets
Break
11:00-11:10 Kyle Murphy (ISU): Generalized Turán Problems
11:12-11:22 Jack Finlay (UM): Rainbow connectivity in randomly perturbed graphs
11:24-11:34 Caroline Bang (ISU): Kempe Swaps
11:36- 11:46 Xujun Liu (UIUC): Solving secretary-type problems via a combinatorial method
Break
12:00-12:10 Carolyn Reinhart (ISU): Damage throttling for the game of Cops and Robbers
12:12-12:22 Grace McCourt (UIUC): Low diameter monochromatic covers of complete multipartite graphs
12:24-12:34 Jasmine Martin (ISU): Universal cycles as Eulerian circuits
12:36- 12:46 Cassie Murley (UIUC): Weighted Ramsey-Turán problems
Break
1:00-1:10 Letícia Mattos (IMPA): Asymmetric Ramsey properties of random graphs
1:12-1:22 Shiliang Gao (UIUC): Kostka semigroup and its Hilbert basis
1:24-1:34 David Brewster (UIUC): Coxeter groups and properness
Organized by József Balogh, Emily Heath, Bob Kruger, and Bernard Lidický.