AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, October 22-23, 2022

Schedule of some of the special sessions (for other sessions, see the conference webpage)

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Abdul Basit's Sat 5.30pm talk cancelled.
Jacques Verstraete's Sat 5.30pm talk cancelled, and Jozsi Balogh's Sun 10.30am talk has been moved to this slot.
Florian Pfender's Sat 8am talk cancelled; Bernard Lidicky's Sun 8am talk has been moved to this slot.

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There are four special sessions at this meeting that may be of interest to graph theory/combinatorics peeps, all being held on the second floor of the LeRoy Cowles Building:

Graphs, Hypergraphs and Set Systems (GHSS), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 215 (our session)
Extremal Graph Theory (EGT), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 225
Graphs and Matrices (GM), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 222
Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications in Harmonic Analysis, in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 219 (ACAHA)

Here are the full schedules of the four sessions, with links to abstracts:

Saturday AM session (8am-11am)
Saturday PM session (3pm-6pm)
Sunday AM session (8am-11am)
Sunday PM session (2pm-5pm)

Saturday AM session:
Graphs, Hypergraphs and Set Systems (GHSS), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 215 (our session)
Extremal Graph Theory (EGT), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 225
Graphs and Matrices (GM), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 222
Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications in Harmonic Analysis, in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 219 (ACAHA)
- Saturday 8am:
  - ~~EGT: Florian Pfender, Inducibility of small tournaments~~
    Bernard Lidicky will speak in this time slot (Turan problems in l_2-norm)
  - GM: Bryan L Shader, Skew-adjacency matrices of tournaments
  - ACAHA: Paul M Terwilliger, A Q-polynomial structure associated with the projective geometry L_N(q)
- Saturday 8.30am:
  - GHSS: Mike Tait, Colorful Turan and Ramsey problems
  - EGT: Ryan Martin, Splits with forbidden graphs
  - GM: Matt Burnham, The Structure of Singular and Nonsingular Tournament Matrices
  - ACAHA: Allen Herman, Revisiting the association schemes arising from parabolic subgroups of Coxeter groups
- Saturday 9am:
  - GHSS: Adam Volk, Tree-Saturating Graphs
  - EGT: Maya Ratnam Sankar, Homotopy and the Homomorphism Threshold of Odd Cycles
  - GM: Amanda Ellis Francis, Hypercubes and hanging gardens from Adinkras
  - ACAHA: Christopher P French, Twin buildings and hypergroup actions
- Saturday 9.30am:
  - GHSS: Chris Cox, Maximum likelihood estimators and subgraph counts in planar graphs
  - EGT: Lina Li, The chromatic number of triangle-free hypergraphs
  - GM: Andrew R Tawfeek, How to spot a manifold in a crowd using graph theory
  - ACAHA: Justin Stevenson, Character Groups of dihedral and generalized quaternion groups
- Saturday 10am:
  - GHSS: Gwen McKinley, Colorings of the Middle Layers of the Hamming Cube
  - EGT: Max Wenqiang Xu, Multicolor list Ramsey numbers grow exponentially
  - GM: Dheer Noal Desai, Spectral Turan problems for some bipartite graphs
  - ACAHA: Jonathan D. H Smith, Pontryagin duality for dihedral groups
- Saturday 10.30am:
  - GHSS: Jessica McDonald, On flows (and group-connectivity) in signed graphs
  - EGT: Vishesh Jain, Anticoncentration versus the number of subset sums
  - GM: Mike Tait, Geometric structures in pseudo-random graphs
  - ACAHA: Nathaniel Benjamin, Schurian Association Schemes Obtained from the Unitary Group Acting on Isotropic Vectors
Saturday PM session:
Graphs, Hypergraphs and Set Systems (GHSS), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 215 (our session)
Extremal Graph Theory (EGT), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 225
Graphs and Matrices (GM), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 222
Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications in Harmonic Analysis, in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 219 (ACAHA)
- Saturday 3pm:
  - GHSS: Xavier Perez-Gimenez, The Phase Transition of Discrepancy in Random Hypergraphs
  - EGT: David Conlon, Domination inequalities and dominating graphs
  - GM: Steve Butler, Complements of coalescing sets
  - ACAHA: John Jasper, Harmonic equi-isoclinic tight fusion frames
- Saturday 3.30pm:
  - GHSS: Dubroff Quentin, Reverse discrepancy and almost zero-sum stars
  - EGT: Bjarne Schulke, A local version of Katona's intersection theorem
  - GM: Chrisian Howell, Distance squared matrices of unicyclic graphs
  - ACAHA: Enrique Gomez-Leos, A new infinite family of equi-isoclinic tight fusion frames
- Saturday 4pm:
  - GHSS: Anna Halfpap, Positive co-degree density of hypergraphs
  - EGT: Huy Tuan Pham, On random irregular subgraphs
  - GM: Adam Knudson, A 1-Separation Formula for the Graph Kemeny Constant and Braess Edges
  - ACAHA: Dustin G. Mixon, Totally symmetric equi-isoclinic tight fusion frames
- Saturday 4.30pm:
  - GHSS: Kevin Milans, Tight paths in fully directed orientations of complete hypergraphs
  - EGT: Cory Palmer, Maximal independent sets
  - GM: Sooyeong Kim, Kemeny's constant and Wiener index on trees
  - ACAHA: Emily J King, Switching Equivalence on the Grassmannian
- Saturday 5pm:
  - GHSS: Ruth Luo, Hamiltonian-connectivity in hypergraphs
  - EGT: Igor Araujo, New Lower Bounds For Essential Covers Of The Cube
  - GM: Stephen J Young, Submodular Random Walks
  - ACAHA: Kenneth Walter Johnson, Harmonic analysis and projective representations
- Saturday 5.30pm:
  - ~~GHSS: Abdul Basit, Generalized Tuza's conjecture for random hypergraphs~~
  - ~~EGT: Jacques Verstraete, Pseudorandom Ramsey Graphs~~
    Jozsi Balogh will speak in this time slot (An upper bound on the size of Sidon sets)
  - GM: Franklin Kenter, The Ordered Multiplicity Inverse Eigenvalue Sequence Problem, Powers Of Graphs, And More
  - ACAHA: Bangteng Xu, Partial geometric designs arising from association schemes
Sunday AM session:
Graphs, Hypergraphs and Set Systems (GHSS), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 215 (our session)
Extremal Graph Theory (EGT), in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 225
Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications in Harmonic Analysis, in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 219 (ACAHA)
- Sunday 8.00am:
  - GHSS: David Galvin, Eulerian numbers and TNN matrices
  - ~~EGT: Bernard Lidicky, Turan problems in l_2-norm~~
  - ACAHA: Bill Martin, Ideals of the eigenpolytopes and ETFs coming from Paley graphs
- Sunday 8.30am:
  - GHSS: Jay Pantone, Combinatorial Exploration: An algorithmic framework for enumeration
  - EGT: Sammy Y Luo, Monochromatic components with many edges
  - ACAHA: Dmitriy Kunisky, Sum-of-squares relaxations of the clique number of Paley graphs
- Sunday 9.00am:
  - GHSS: Sam Spiro, Maximal Independent Sets in Clique-free Graphs
  - EGT: Robert A. Kruege, A sharp threshold for a random Sperner's Theorem
  - ACAHA: Zilin Jiang, Forbidden subgraphs and spherical two-distance sets
- Sunday 9.30am:
  - GHSS: Mihalis Sarantis, Zero-free Regions for the Independence Polynomial of Hypergraphs
  - EGT: Yunkun Zhou, Directed analogues of Sidorenko's conjecture
  - ACAHA: Mikhail Ganzhinov, Levenstein-equality line packings associated with irreducible representations of finite groups SL(2,q)
- Sunday 10.00am:
  - GHSS: Corrine Yap, Algorithms for the Potts model on expander graphs
  - EGT: Asaf Ferber, Quantum algorithms on graphs
  - ACAHA: Jonathan Jedwab, Constructions and restrictions for balanced splittable Hadamard matrices
- Sunday 10.30am:
  - ~~EGT: Jozsef Balog, An upper bound on the size of Sidon sets~~
  - ACAHA: Shuxing Li, On the nonexistence of generalized bent functions
Sunday PM session:
Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications in Harmonic Analysis, in LeRoy Cowles Building Room 219
- Sunday 2pm: Andrew Misseldine, Schur Rings over Semigroups
- Sunday 2.30pm: Nathan Lindzey, Eigenvalues of the Derangement Graphs
- Sunday 3pm: Harvey Blau, Standard table algebras and association schemes whose thin residues are thin
- Sunday 3.30pm: Sarah R Bockting-Conrad, Tridiagonal pairs of Racah type and the double lowering operator Phi
- Sunday 4pm: Michael Perlmutter, Geometric Scattering on Measure Spaces
- Sunday 4.30pm: Sung-Yell Song, Association schemes that give rise to partial geometric designs