54th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing

March 6-10, 2023

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The Fifty-fourth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (SEICCGTC) was held March 6-10, 2023 in the Student Union at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. The main campus is located three miles from the Atlantic Ocean, on an 850-acre site in Boca Raton, south of Palm Beach and north of Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The climate is subtropical with an average temperature of 75 degrees.

This years 54th conference will be a fully in-person conference held on our beautiful campus in lovely Boca Raton, Florida!

Invited speakers at this year's 54th SEICCGTC:

Edinah Gnang, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA
Ron Gould, Emory University, Georgia, USA
Natasha Morrison, University of Victoria, Canada
Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA

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Celebrating its 54th year, the Conference brings together mathematicians and others interested in combinatorics, graph theory and computing, and their interactions. The Conference lectures and contributed papers, as well as the opportunities for informal conversations, have proven to be of great interest to other scientists and analysts employing these mathematical sciences in their professional work in business, industry, and government.

The Conference continues to promote better understanding of the roles of modern applied mathematics, combinatorics, and computer science to acquaint the investigator in each of these areas with the various techniques and algorithms which are available to assist in his or her research. Each discipline has contributed greatly to the others, and the purpose of the Conference is to decrease even further the gaps between the fields.

The organizing committee members (Frederick Hoffman, Ronald C. Mullin, and Stephen Locke) cordially invite participation in our Conference by interested persons in the academic community as well as business, industry and government. The conference advisory committee members are: Miklos Bona, (University of Florida); David Brown, (Utah State University); Kim Factor, (Marquette University); Martin Golumbic, (University of Haifa); Leslie Hogben (Iowa State University and American Institute on Mathematics (AIM)); Sarah Holliday, (Kennesaw State University); Edoardo Persichetti, (Florida Atlantic University); Ivelisse Rubio, (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras); John Wierman (Johns Hopkins University), Maria Provost, (Florida Atlantic University).

The 54th Conference is partially supported by the National Security Agency and the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications.

Driving Directions

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Student Union

777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431

Florida Atlantic University Campus Map (see parking lot numbers on this map. To enlarge map, click on the "+" sign.)

Driving Directions from I-95

Coming from the North: Take I-95 south; exit Spanish River Blvd. At the light, continue traveling south which will take you right onto the FAU campus. Turn right onto North university Drive. North University Drive will veer to the left. The Student Union will be on your left. Park in the large lot on the left. You will see signs for the Student Support Services Building.

Coming from the South: Take I-95 north; exit Glades Road and go east approximately one mile; FAU will be on your left. Upon entering the campus, follow signs for the Student Support Services Building.

Driving Directions from the Turnpike

Coming from the North: Take the Turnpike south; exit at Glades Road and go east approximately 6 miles; FAU is located on your left. Upon entering the campus, follow signs for the Student Support Services Building.

Coming from the South: Take the Turnpike north; exit at Glades Road and go east approximately 6 miles; FAU is located on your left. Upon entering the campus, follow signs for the Student Support Services Building.

Parking Information

Non-FAU participants: Please park your car in the parking spaces with white parking bumper/stops in Lot #16 (in front of the Student Union Building). If you don’t find a white space in Lot #16, please park in Garage #1, but make sure to park your car in white spaces only (Please see the FAU map for lot numbers and garage numbers).

Thursday, March 9, 2023, please park your car in Garage TBA, white parking places only.

54th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing March 6-10, 2023
Abstracts

* Special Session:	Extremal Graph Theory	Organizer: Ron Gould, Emory University
** Special Session:	Matrices and Graphs	Organizers: Bryan Curtis and Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University

Name	Institution	Abstract
Abay-Asmerom, Ghidewon	Virginia Commonwealth University	Graph Similarity on the Ge'ez Writing Characters (Fidel)
Abdallah, Mohamad	American University of Kuwait	Generalized 4-Connectivity of Alternating Group Networks
Aggarwal, Divya	Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi	Splitting subspaces of Linear Operators over Finite Fields
Ahmad, Sarfraz	COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore	On inc-compatible monomial ordering on polynomial ring in in nite many variables
Akhmejanova, Margarita	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	On-line colorings of hypergraphs
Alekseyev, Max A.	The George Washington University	On computing sets of integers with maximum number of pairs summing to powers of 2
Arif, Amina	COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus, Pakistan	On irregularity indices and main eigenvalues of graphs and their applicability
Bailey, Sean	Texas A& M University Texarkana	Probing Dot Product Graphs
Barrett, Wayne	Brigham Young University	Graphs that allow two distinct eigenvalues
Bereg, Sergey	University of Texas at Dallas	Improved Bounds on Permutation Arrays for Chebyshev Metric
Bjorkman, Beth **	Air Force Research Lab	Robust Power Domination Part 1: An Introduction
Boats, Jeffery	University of Detroit Mercy	The Pansophy of Multipartite Graphs
Bowling, Andrew	Western Michigan University	Zonal Labelings and the Four Color Problem
Brennan, Zachary **	Iowa State University	Orthogonal Realizations of Random Sign Patterns
Buchanan, Calum	University of Vermont	On the last new vertex visited by a random walk in a directed graph
Bumpus, Benjamin Merlin	University of Florida	Chopping things up to decide stuff fast
Bushaw, Neal *	Virginia Commonwealth University	Extremal Problems with Forbidden Color Classes
Cao, Lei	Nova Southeastern University	Minimal 123-forcing matrices
Carlson, Joshua **	Drake University	Minimal Zero Forcing Sets
Carr, John	University of North Alabama	Color Trades on Graphs
Carrigan, Braxton	Southern Connecticut State University	Skolem Number of Lattice Type Graphs
Chen, Douglas	Johns Hopkins University	Permutation-Invariant Parking Assortments
Chen, Guantao *	Georgia State University	Multiplicity of the second-largest eigenvalue of graphs
Choi, Eric	Georgia Gwinnett College	Properties of Pancentral and Pancyclic Graphs
Curran, Stephen	University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown	A Variant of Nim Played on Boolean Matrices
da Fonseca, Carlos M.	Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait	The number of P-vertices of singular acyclic matrices: An inverse problem
Darrow, Brian	Southern Connecticut State University	On decompositions of 3-uniform hypergraphs into tight cycles
De Agostino, Sergio	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	Super-Extended Split Graphs and the 3-Sphere Regular Cellulation Conjecture
Dougherty, Ryan	United States Military Academy	Asymptotics of Covering Arrays of Higher Index
English, Sean	University of North Carolina, Wilmington	Saturation numbers for short hypegrgraph cycles
Erey, Aysel	Utah State University	Tomescu’s graph coloring conjecture and beyond
Fallat, Shaun	University of Regina	Revisiting the Parter-Wiener Theorem for Trees
Fehribach, Joseph	WPI Mathematical Sciences	Families of Kirchhoff Graphs
Flagg, Mary **	University of St. Thomas	Robust Power Domination Part 2: Complete Bipartite Graphs
Freyberg, Bryan	University of Minnesota Duluth	On the Face-Magic Strength of Cartesian Products of Paths and Cycles
Gao, Shanzhen	Virginia State University	Pell Numbers in Memory of John M. Freeman
Gao, Weizheng	West Virginia State University	Graph Theory Applications in Cybersecurity
Gao, Weizheng	West Virginia State University	Pell Numbers in Memory of John M. Freeman
Gilroy, Haile	Auburn University	A Class of Bicyclic Antiautomorphisms of Mendelsohn Triple Systems
Gnang, Edinah	Johns Hopkins University	A Functional Approach to Graph Labeling
Gnang, Edinah	Johns Hopkins University	The composition lemma and its applications to graph labelings
Goddard, Wayne	Clemson University	Bipartite Versions of Domination and Independence
Gossett, Ian	Wesleyan University	Orientations and Additive Colorings of Graphs
Gould, Ron	Emory University	Have You Ever Meta-Conjectured?
Gould, Ron	Emory University	Looking For Saturation In All Kinds of Places
Gould, Ron *	Emory University	Saturation Spectrum for Odd Cycles
Gu, Xiaofeng *	University of West Georgia	Extremal results of transversal critical graphs
Gutierrez, Jaime	University of Cantabria, Spain	Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares based on e-Klenian polynomials
Hallas, Kristen Perez, Deanna	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	Root Behavior of Golden-like Recursive Polynomials
Hayat, Sakander	Universiti Brunei Darussalam	Graphs whose generalized adjacency matrix has few distinct eigenvalues
Heath, Emily	Iowa State University	Online Ramsey numbers of ordered paths and cycles
Holliday, Sarah	Kennesaw State University	List colorings of graphs
Huntsman, Steve	Category Capital	Discrete topological methods for cybersecurity, network science, and machine learning
Isaak, Garth	Lehigh University	Enumerating List Colorings
Jacob, Bonnie **	Rochester Institue of Technology	Which graphs are well-zero-forced?
Jacob, Jobby	Rochester Institue of Technology	L(h; k) labelings some classes of graphs
Jeffries, Joel	Iowa State University	A modified Schütte’s property and its application to dice games
Johnson, Peter	Auburn University	Colorings of Graphs With Reference to Other Graphs
Johnston, Daniel	Trinity College	Equitable Choosability of Prism Graphs
Joslin, Samuel	Georgetown University	Geometric Parameters of Bipartite Suspensions
Kikas, Lazaros	University of Detroit Mercy	Effect of a Superuser on the Pansophy of a Network
Kingan, Sandra	Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY	Characterizing minimally 3-connected graphs
Knudson, Adam	Brigham Young University	A Nordhaus-Gaddum type problem for the normalized Laplacian spectrum and graph Cheeger constant
Kainen, Paul C.	Georgetown Unversity	Theory of cycles in computing
Koch, Johnathan	Youngstown State University	The Power Domination Toolbox
Kritschgau, Jürgen	Carnegie Mellon University	Bounds on the q-forcing number for trees and caterpillar cycles
Kruk, Serge	Oakland University	Optimal BIBDs via Constraint Programming
Langley, Larry	University of the Pacific	An Extension of Seymour's Second Neighborhood Conjecture
Larson, Craig *	Virginia Commonwealth University	Size in Independence Number 2 Graphs
Leal, Caroline	United States Naval Academy	Minimizing the Number of Edge Swaps to Obtain a Bipartite Graph
Lesniak, Linda *	Western Michgan University	Euler's Formula for General Graph Imbeddings
Li, Zhengyu	University of Waterloo	A SAT Solver + Computer Algebra Attack on the Minimum Kochen–Specker Problem
Lipman, Drew	MITRE Corp	When can Graphs be Reconstructed from their Dominating Sets?
Lorch, John	Ball State University	Cellular Factor Pair Latin Squares
Low, Richard *	San Jose State University	Computation of New Diagonal Graph Ramsey Numbers
Malomo, Olumide	Virginia State University	Using Graph Theory to Analyze Risk Assessments
Manuel, Paul	Kuwait University	Dual min-max graph combinatorial problems for multi-dimensional grid net- works
Matsui, Yasuko	Tokai University	Enumerate All Routes on a Doughnut
Mays, Caryn	Western Michigan University	Irregular Domination in Graphs
Mazza, Lucian	Oakland University	Generalized Matching Preclusion for Regular Interconnection Networks
McAlpine, Robert	Stonehill College	On Edge-Balance Index Sets of Connected Complete Graphs
Meyerowitz, Aaron	Florida Atlantic University	The α - Ω Game
Milans, Kevin G. *	West Virginia University	Longest Path and Cycle Transversals in Chordal Graphs
Morrison, Natasha	University of Victoria, Canada	Bootstrap percolation and related graph processes
Morrison, Natasha	University of Victoria, Canada	Uncommon Systems of Equations
Myers, Timothy	Howard University	Formal Construction of any Clifford Graph Algebra and Relationships Between Generators of its Different Bases
Nasserasr, Shahla	Rochester Institute of Technology	Regular graphs with two distinct eigenvalues
Noble, Matt	Middle Georgia State University	Coloring the Triangular Lattice
Painter, Jared	University of North Alabama	Harmonious Labelings of Symmetric Starlike Trees
Pál Pach, Péter	Budapest University of Technology	On sumsets of nonbases of maximum size
Pemantle, Robin	University of Pennsylvania	Asymptotics for recursions with algebraic generating functions
Pemantle, Robin	University of Pennsylvania	Active Learning in Applied Mathematics Courses
Pérez-Alonso, Alain	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile	A new optimization model for well-balanced multiple team formation
Pfaltz, John	University of Virginia	Frankl’s Union-Closed Family Conjecture
Pinciu, Val	Southern Connecticut State University	An Application of Graph Domination to Unfolding Polyhedra
Pudwell, Lara	Valparaiso University	Patterns in Parking Functions
Pudwell, Lara	Valparaiso University	Packing Patterns in Restricted Permutations
Pulapaka, Hari	Stetson University	Bipartite Network Models for Food Systems
Qiu, Ke	Brock University	On Forward Difference of Surface Areas of Interconnect Networks
Quail, Jeremy	University of Vermont	Positroids and graphs
Raridan, Christopher	Clayton State University	The Conclusion to the Edge-Balanced Index Set Problem for Complete Bipartite Graphs
Reinhart, Carolyn **	Swathmore College	On the zero forcing number of the complement of certain graphs
Reiswig, Josiah	Anderson University	The Steiner distance problem for large vertex subsets in the hypercube
Ren, Emily	Diamond Bar High School	Intersection of Longest Cycles and Largest Bonds in 3-Connected Graphs
Reyes, Francisco	Florida International University	Encoding Acyclic Orientation of Complete Multipartite Graphs
Rombach, Puck	University of Vermont	Toughness of recursively partitionable graphs
Ross, Luke	Saint John's University	Introduction to Game Closed Neighborhood Limited Chromatic Numbers
Schuerger, Houston	Trinity College	Computer assisted discovery: Zero forcing vs vertex cover
Sepanski, Mark	Baylor University	Odd Cyclic Cordial Friendship Graphs
Shader, Bryan **	University of Wyoming	The perfect matching versus edge incidence matrix of a graph
Shozi, Zekhaya	Sol Plaatje University	A generalization of Petersen’s matching theorem
Simard Frédéric	University of Ottawa	On Copnumbers of Periodic Temporal Graphs
Skyers, Marina	Penn State, Brandywine	Exploration of the randomness of irrational number sequences
Soifer, Alexander	University of Colorado	Coloring Square Grid, Nesting Rectangles: A Bridge from Mathematical Olympiads to Mathematical Research
Tenney, Asa H.	Georgetown University	Book Thickness of Powers of Paths and Cycles
Thalheimer, Bryce	Johns Hopkins University	Survival Probabilities in a Probabilistic Counting-Out Game
Tiemeyer, Michael	Georgia Southern University	On z-cycle factorizations with two associate classes where z is 2a and a is even
Tiner, Gary	Faulkner University	On the Loebl-Komlós-Sós Conjecture for graphs with no path on k + 4 vertices
Wang, Ping	Saint Francis Xavier University	An algorithm on strong edge coloring of K4-minor free graphs
Xie, Weiguo	University of Minnesota Duluth	To Color the Historic Heawood Map with Four Colors Using a Systematic Rotation Method
Wisby, Justin	Florida International University	k-Domination of Cartesian Product of Complete Graphs
Yatauro, Michael	Penn State, Brandywine	The Gathering Number of a Graph and Vertex Degrees
Young Derek	Mount Holyoke College	Minimum Rank and Zero Forcing Parameters for Cobipartite Graphs
Young, Michael **	Carnegie Mellon University	The relationship between zero forcing and vertex covers
Zhang, Claire	Auburn University	Packing and Covering Directed Triangles in Directed Simple Graphs

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