SEMINAR: Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Gordon Royle (UWA)

There will be refreshments in Maths & Stats tea room at 15:40, and we will go for drinks at the UWA Tavern or the UniClub after the seminar. All are most welcome.

Speaker: Gordon Royle (University of Western Australia) Title: Hamilton Cycles in Cubic Graphs Time and place: 16:00 Friday 01/09/2017 in Weatherburn LT

Abstract: Starting from early attempts to prove the 4-colour theorem, the study of hamilton cycles in cubic graphs has been an integral part of graph theory for well over a century. Despite a number of beautiful results, there are still many fundamental unresolved questions about both the existence and enumeration of hamilton cycles in various classes of cubic graphs. In this talk I will describe various results and open problems from this body of work, including some recent counting results obtained with Irene Pivotto.

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