The Math/Stats Colloquium is excited and proud to present Ellen Veomett (St. Mary’s College of California) on “Coloring Geometrically Defined Graphs”.  This talk will take us through a journey of graph coloring.  We’ll start with some basic definitions and the well-known four and five color theorems.  We’ll also discuss the fascinating question of the chromatic number of the plane.  Finally, we’ll talk about new results on box graphs, which are graphs defined using blocks and their intersections.  This talk will be extremely accessible, while at the same time including some modern research topics.

Background: No particular background required.  Students at every level are encouraged to attend, and students in lower-division math classes (like calculus) should find this a particularly accessible introduction to research in mathematics.

Background: One course in abstract algebra.

• Date: Wed Apr 27
• Time: 3-3:50pm
• Room: MH320
• Snacks: 2:30pm in MH331B

For more information, click here to see the full flyer, suitable for printing and posting.

Hope to see you there!

Upcoming events:

• Wed May 04: Nida Kazi Obatake, SJSU
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• Wed May 11: Slobodan Simic, SJSU
  “Topology and physics”