2000 Abstracts
Daisy Structure in Desarguesian Projective Planes of Order 2^n+1
Gabriela Araujo Pardo
IMATE–UNAM

 

A Combinatorial Problem in Cyclic Abelian Groups
Gyula A. Karolyi
Eötvös University, Budapest
(joint work with Oriol Serra and Balázs Szegedy)

 

What is in a Diagram?
Rodolfo San Agustín Chi
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

Spin Graphs
José Seade
IMATE–Cuernvaca, UNAM

 

Modular Hadamard Matrices
Shalom Eliahou
Université du Littoral Cote d’Opale, Calais

 

The Chip-firing Game and the Tutte Polynomial
Criel Merino
IMATE–UNAM

 

Branch Width and well-quasi-ordering in Matroids and Graphs
Geofrey P. Whittle
Victoria University of Wellington
(joint work with Jim Geelen and Bert Gerards)

 

The Tutte Polynomial on the Square Lattice
Pastora Revuelta-Marchena
Escuela Universitaria de Arquitectura Técnica
(joint work with M.E. Gegundez and A. Márquez)

 

Combinatorics of Mappings
Jaroslav Nesetril
Charles University

 

Algorithms for Graph Homomorphisms
Pavol Hell
Simon Fraser University
(joint work with M. Rosenfeld)

 

Graph Decompositions and SONET Networks
Charles J. Colbourn
University of Vermont

 

On Some Different Aspects of Clique Graphs
Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

 

Using Complex Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Michael Goemans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Sequences from Finite Regular Semigroup with Group Products
Jean Loyola Oesmer
University of the Philippines Los Banos

 

New Bounds for the Crossing Number of Cartesian Products of Cycles
Hector Alfonso Juarez
IICO–UASLP

 

Medical Surveillance, Frequent Sets, and Closure Spaces
Alan P. Sprague
University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

Irreducibility of the Tutte Polynomial of a Connected Matroid
Marc Noy
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
(joint work with Criel Merino and Anna de Mier)

 

Dominance Codes in the Square of the Hypercube
Feliú Sagols
CINVESTAV–IPN

 

Clique Behaviour of Locally Ct Graphs.
Francisco Larrión
IMATE–UNAM
(joint work with V. Neumann–Lara and M.A. Pizaña)

 

The Stable Scheduling (or Ordinal Transportation) Problem
Michel Balinski
Laboratoire d’Econométrie, Ecole Polytechnique

 

Choosing Lectures with the Independent Set Problem
Rafael López–Bracho
UAM-Azcapotzalco
(joint work with M.A. Gutiérrez–Andrade, M.P. Ortuño Sánchez and J. Ramírez Rodríguez)

 

Separoids: a Characterization of Linear Uniform Acyclic Oriented Matroids
Ricardo Strausz
IMATE–UNAM

 

Theconjecture cr(Cm £ Cn) = (m ¡ 2)n is true for all but finitely Many n
Gelasio Salazar
UASLP IICO
(joint work with L. Yu. Glebsky)

 

On the a-invariant of the Rees Algebra of the ideal of k-products
Adrián Alcántar
CINVESTAV–IPN

 

An (8=5 + ")-approximation for minimum two-edge-connectivity augmentations of trees
Guy Even
Tel Aviv University
(joint work with J. Feldman, G. Kortsarz and Z. Nutov

 

Cyclic embeddings of knots and their applications
Jorge Ramirez Alfonsin
University of Bonn

 

Graph minors and graphs on surfaces
Bojan Mohar
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Approximating small vertex-connectivity problems via Set-Covers
Guy Kortsarz
The Open University
(joint work with Z. Nutov)

 

On the normality of the monomial subring of a graph and the generalized marriage problem
Rafael H. Villarreal
CINVESTAV–IPN

 

Matrices with Dominant Staircases
David Romero Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Cuernavaca, México and Adolfo Sánchez-Flores Banco de México

 

The Theta Body and Perfect Graphs
F. Bruce Shepherd
Research Bell–Labs.

 

Half integrality of postman polyhedrons
Francisco Javier Zaragoza Martínez
University of Waterloo

 

Structure of Topologically Closed Classes of Trees
Neil Robertson
Ohio State University

 

Hopf algebras and the Penrose polynomial
Irasema Sarmiento
CINVESTAV–IPN

 

Coloring the angles of an imbedded graph
Isidoro Gitler
CINVESTAV–IPN

 

On (n,k)-critical graphs and digraphs
Wolfgang Mader
University of Hannover

 

Acyclic Combinatorics in Tournaments
Víctor Neumann–Lara
IMATE–UNAM

 

Dimension of the variety of flags fixed by a nilpotent endomorphism
José Martínez Bernal
CINVESTAV–IPN

 

An Axiomatic Approach to Intercalation
Gilberto Calvillo
Banco de México

 

Semiextensions and Circuit Double Covers
Enrique García Moreno
Ohio State University

 

Spin models and Delta–Y transformations
Isaías López
CINVESTAV–IPN