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Workshop on Symmetry in Graphs, Maps and Polytopes
October 24 - 27, 2011, The Fields Institute
Location: /programs/scientific/11-12/discretegeom/wksp_polytopes/
Schedule
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
External Symmetries of Regular and Orientably Regular Maps
Jozef Siran, Open University Location: |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:25 |
On Some Open Problems in Group Actions on Graphs
Dragan Marusic, University of Primorska Location: |
| 11:30 to 11:55 |
Constructions of Polytopes with Preassigned Automorphism Group and Number of Flag Orbits
Ilanit Helfand, Northeastern University Location: |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Cubic Cayley graphs and snarks
Klavdija Kutnar, University of Primorska Location: |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 15:30 to 15:55 |
On the Minimal Regular Covers of the Polyhedral Prisms and Anti-Prisms
Gordon Williams Location: |
| 16:00 to 16:25 |
Euler Flag Enumeration of Whitney Stratified Spaces
Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky Location: |
| 16:30 to 16:55 |
Few-Orbit Polytopes
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University Location: |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
A Geometric Construction for New Highly Incident Configurations
Leah Berman Location: |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:25 |
Group Actions Applied to Virus Architecture
Philippe Cara, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Location: |
| 11:30 to 11:55 |
The Schur Indices of Irreducible Characters of the Groups of Abstract Regular Polytopes
Allen Herman, University of Regina Location: |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Polytopes of High Rank Arising from Almost Simple Groups
Dimitri Leemans Location: |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 15:30 to 15:55 |
Constructing Self-Dual Chiral Polytopes
Gabriel Cunningham, Northeastern University Location: |
| 16:00 to 16:25 |
The Ubiquity of Alternating Groups (as Automorphism Groups of Symmetric Structures)
Marston Conder, University of Auckland Location: |
| 16:30 to 16:55 |
Colourful Polytopes and Graphs
Isabel Hubard, Institute of Mathematics, UNAM Location: |
| 17:00 to 17:25 |
Enumeration of Coversings, Maps and Hypermaps
Alexander Mednykh, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics Location: |
| 17:30 to 17:55 |
Configurations of points and quasi-lines
Tomaz Pisanski, University of Ljubljana Location: |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Buildings and s-Transitive Graphs
Location: |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:25 |
Large Clique Minors in Vertex Transitive Graphs
Bojan Mohar, SFU and Simon Fraser University Location: |
| 11:30 to 11:55 |
Classical Groups Acting on Polytopes
Peter Brooksbank, Bucknell University Location: |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Map Gaps
Thomas Tucker Location: |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 15:30 to 15:55 |
On Familiy of Unsatisying Graphs
Heidi Burgiel, Bridgewater State University Location: |
| 16:00 to 16:25 |
Basic System of Integers
Norman Johnson, Wheaton College Location: |
| 16:30 to 16:55 |
Regular Maps with Nilpotent Automorphism Groups
Martin Skoviera, Comenius University, Bratislava Location: |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Beauville Surfaces and Groups
Gareth Jones, University of Southampton Location: |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 11:25 |
On the Split Structure of Lifted Groups
Aleksander Malnic, University of Ljubljana Location: |
| 11:30 to 11:55 |
Nonorientable Regular Maps and Residual Finiteness of Triangle Groups
Martin Macaj, Comenius University, Bratislava Location: |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Vertex Transitive and Edge Transitive Polytopes and 2-Dimensional Orbifolds
Roman Nedela Location: |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 15:30 to 15:55 |
The Symetries of McCullough-Miller Space
Adam Piggott, Bucknell University Location: |
| 16:00 to 16:25 |
Polyhedral Realizations & Non-Realizability for Vertex-Minimal Triangulations of Closed Surfaces
Undine Leopold, Northeastern University Location: |
| 16:30 to 16:55 |
Classification of Orientable Edge-transitive Maps
Jan Karabas Location: |
