Yanna Chen (New York City College of Technology)

Title: Close Encounters with Stirling Numbers of the First and Second Kind

Abstract: An important study in combinatorics involves partitions of n element sets into k classes. We discuss partitions, inverse partitions and answer relevant questions that help to clarify and lay the ground work for further explorations. This is joint work with Julio C. Salazar, Jie Hao Luo, Xuebin Zou, Ivan Yueng, and Merkis Ruiz under the supervision of Dr. Satyanand Singh.

Kevin Weatherwalks (Montclair State University)

Title: Maximizing the number of homomorphisms into V_k