Jenö Lehel
Vernon Wilson Endowed Chair
During the Spring 2007 semester Professor Jenö Lehel was the Vernon Wilson Endowed Chair in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Eastern Kentucky University. He conducted a Seminar in Graph Theory and Combinatorics and hosted a number of invited scholars who came here to present their research to the seminar and collaborate with faculty in the department. Below is a summary of the Wilson Endowment Seminar Series organized by Professor Lehel.
January 24-27, Professor Paul-Hermann Zieschang, University of Texas at Brownsville
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On Friday January 26, Professor Zieschang gave a talk to the seminar titled The Exchange Condition for Association Schemes (see abstract). The picture on the left was taken during the lecture and photos on the right and below were taken at the reception following the talk. |
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January 26 - February 5, Professor Anthony Hilton, Reading University and Queen Mary University of London
Anthony Hilton during his first lecture
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On Januray 30 Professor Hilton talked to the seminar about
Degree bounded factorizations of bipartite multigraphs and of pseudographs (see abstract). His second talk, February 2, was joint work with Curt Lindner on
Embedding Partial 4-Cycle Systems (see abstract).
Cheering on the Colts |
Anthony and Mary at a Cropper feast |
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February 14-18, Professor Gábor Sárközy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and SZTAKI, Hungary
 | On Friday, February 16 Professor Sárközy presented his talk on New coloring applications of the Regularity Lemma (see abstract). On the left is Gábor during his talk and below and on the right are shots taken at another Cropper feast.
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February 26-March 2, Professor Frédéric Maffray, Laboratoire G-SCOP , Grenoble, France
 | On Friday, March 2 Professor Maffray presented his talk on Recent results on b-coloring (see abstract). On the left is Frédéric during his talk and below are shots taken during his visit.
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March 22-April 1, Professor Pete Johnson, Auburn University
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Professor Johnson gave two seminar talks during his stay:
On March 27 his talk was on Hall t–chromatic graphs (see abstract) and the second talk on March 29 was on
Extending Hall’s theorem into list colorings: a partial history (see abstract).
He also gave the invited lecture at Eastern Kentucky University's 21st Annual Symposium in
Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Sciences held on March 23. Pictured on the left is Pete giving his first seminar talk. The other pictures were taken during his visit.
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April 4-7, Professor András Gyárfás, University of Memphis and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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On Friday, April 6 Professor Gyárfás gave a talk on Monochromatic pieces in edge colorings of complete graphs (see abstract).
Pictured on the left is András during his talk to the seminar and below, dinner at Arlington.
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April 12-14, Professor André Kézdy, University of Louisville
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On Friday, April 13 Professor Kezdy gave a talk on Recent Progress Applying Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz (see abstract).
Pictured on the left is André during his talk to the seminar and below, at another Cropper feast and working on maths.
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April 16-20, Professor Zoltán Füredi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Institute, Budapest
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On Thursday, April 19 Professor Füredi gave a talk on Graph representations: measured intersections (see abstract).
Pictured on the left is Zoltán during his talk to the seminar and and turing around campus and below, having dinner at
Arlington and Woody's.
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Also available are extra pictures taken during the Wilson Endowment Program: |
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* The Vernon Wilson Endowed Chair position is funded by the Vernon Wilson Trust and the Endowment Program part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Regional University Excellence Trust Fund.
Previous Vernon Wilson Endowed Chairs:
Anthony Hilton, Spring 2005
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