Twenty-fifth Annual Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing

第25届坎伯兰组合学、图论与计算年会将于2012年5月10日至12日在田纳西州约翰逊市的东田纳西州立大学校园举行。这次离散数学年会为该领域的研究人员交流最新的研究成果和新的研究方向提供了一个区域论坛。它还为新的调查人员提供了一个激励和信息丰富的场所；包括本科生、研究生和刚毕业的博士。在过去的24年里，坎伯兰会议以拥有高质量的演讲者和提供有利于参与者之间合作的环境而闻名。2012年坎伯兰会议的目标反映在其主题：开放问题和当代猜想。该会议作为各层次研究人员的区域交流，发挥着独特的作用，并一直积极推动新的研究合作的启动。今年的会议主题包括设计理论、网络及其应用、超图、图中的支配、图着色、极值和概率组合以及度分布模型。四位国际知名的研究人员已接受邀请担任主要演讲嘉宾：Jozsef Balogh（伊利诺伊大学）、Fan Chung（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）、Michael Henning（南非约翰内斯堡大学）和Curt Lindner（奥本大学）。我们鼓励受邀的演讲者和与会者在会议主题范围内发表演讲，包括公开的问题和最近提出的猜想。会议的当代性质也鼓励在计算机科学、数据挖掘、图像捕获和生物网络等领域应用图论模型。更多详细信息请访问http://www.etsu.edu/cas/math/cumberland

The 25th Annual Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing will be held May 10--12, 2012 on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. This annual conference on discrete mathematics provides a regional forum for the exchange of the latest research results and new directions of interests to researchers in the field. It also provides a stimulating and informative venue for new investigators; including undergraduate students, graduate students and recent PhDs. Over the past twenty-four years, the Cumberland Conference has developed a reputation for having high quality speakers and for providing a setting conducive to collaboration among the participants.The goal of the 2012 Cumberland Conference is reflected by its theme: Open Problems and Contemporary Conjectures. This conference plays a unique role as a regional exchange for researchers of all levels and has always actively promoted the initiation of new research collaborations. This year the conference topics include design theory, networks and their applications, hypergraphs, domination in graphs, graph coloring, extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, and degree distribution models. Four internationally-renown researchers have accepted invitations to be principal speakers: Jozsef Balogh (University of Illinois), Fan Chung (University of California, San Diego), Michael Henning (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), and Curt Lindner (Auburn University). The invited speakers and the conference participants are encouraged to give talks within the theme of the conference by including open problems and recently posed conjectures. The contemporary nature of the conference also encourages graph-theoretic models that are applicable in areas such as computer science, data mining, image capturing, and biological networks.More details are available at http://www.etsu.edu/cas/math/cumberland