CMPS 2022

The second Combinatorial Meeting of Prairie and Sky will happen on May 17, 2022. The conference will be held virtually over zoom featuring junior mathematicians. Each speaker will present a topic of their choice -- typically research problem that interests them. Talks will be about 10 minutes. The event will feature graduate students from Iowa State University, University of Illinois, and University of Montana.

You can register here to receive the zoom link for the conference.

May 17, 2022

Times are in CENTRAL time

  • 9:50 - Opening remarks

  • 10:00-10:10 - Bryan Curtis (ISU) - Non-transitive dice

  • 10:12-10:22 - Grace McCourt (UIUC) - On sizes of 1-cross intersecting set pair systems

  • 10:24-10:34 - Enrique Gomez-Leos (ISU) - Equi-isoclinic subspaces and some square identities

  • 10:36- 10:46 - Haoran Luo (UIUC) - Turán number for a blow-up of the generalized triangle

  • Break

  • 11:00-11:10 - Christian McRoberts (ISU) - Packing chromatic number of infinite graphs

  • 11:12-11:22 - Anna Halfpap (UM) - Rational exponents for triangles (and other graphs)

  • 11:24-11:34 - Ramon I. Garcia (UIUC) - Positive co-degree stability for 3-uniform $K_4^{-}$-free hypergraphs

  • 11:36- 11:46 - Daniel McGinnis (ISU) - Piercing T(3)-families in the plane with lines

  • Break

  • 12:00-12:10 - Van Magnan (UM) - More applications of Frankl's delta base

  • 12:12-12:22 - Caroline Bang (ISU) - Sums of Riordan arrays

  • 12:24-12:34 - Bob Krueger (UIUC) - A random version of Sperner's theorem

  • 12:36- 12:46 - Jack Finlay (UM) - Rainbow connectivity of randomly perturbed graphs

  • Break

  • 1:00-1:10 - Kimberly Hadaway (ISU) - An introduction to parking functions

  • 1:12-1:22 - Ryan Wood (UM) - On prism Hamiltonicity