Participant Support

CombinaTexas'06 will be held on the campus of Texas Southern University , on February 24-25, Friday and Saturday, 2006.
All the talks will be held in Room 207, Ernest S. Sterling Student Life Center

Participants should enter TSU campus at Gate S1.On Friday simply state that you are attending CombinaTexas Conference and they'll let you in. On Saturday the gate will remain open.

Friday, February 24

8:15AM	Van leaves the hotel for TSU
9:00AM	Greetings from Texas Southern University Nathaniel Dean , Chair Department of Mathematical Sciences Bobby L. Wilson ,Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs
9:15AM	Keynote Address: Robert Curl A Pedestrian's Encounter with Specialized Polyhedra
10:15AM	Break
10:30AM	Invited Talk :Douglas Klein Fullerenes & Beyond
11:30AM	Invited Talk:Glenn Tesler The Fragile Breakage versus Random Breakage Models of Chromosome Evolution
12:30PM	Lunch Provided
2:00PM	Invited Talk:Alexandru T. Balaban Benzenoids (Polyhexes): Problems, Solutions, and Challenges
3:00PM	Break
3:10PM	Jonathan Miller Long -range spatial correlations of functional elements in vertebrate genomes
3:30PM	Craig Larson Maximum Critical Independent Sets
3:50PM	Dimitrije Kostic The Tutte Polynomial as a sum over G-Multiparking Functions
4:10PM	Catherine Yan Extended Goncarov polynomials,parking functions,and lattice paths
4:30PM	Xinyu Sun Difference Goncarov Polynomials and Lattice Paths
4:50PM	Ermelinda DeLaVina Computer Generated Sufficient Conditions for Hamiltonian Paths
5:10PM	Li Guo Algebraic structures on planar rooted trees
5:30PM	Presidential Reception
7:30PM	Van leaves TSU for hotel

Saturday, February 25

8:15AM	Van leaves the hotel for TSU
9:00AM	Invited Talk:Vijaya Ramachandran The Diameter of Sparse Random Graphs
10:00AM	Invited Talk:Terry McKee Thinking outside of the graph
11:00AM	Invited Talk:Fan Chung Graham Random graphs and Internet graphs
12:00	Lunch
1:30PM	Kiran Chilakamarri Graphs and the secondary structure of proteins
1:50PM	Robert Eliis Packings and coverings for radius 1 adaptive codes.
2:10PM	Llayron Clarkson On an extension of Pascal's Triangle to the entire plane (a progress report).
2:30PM	Break
2:40PM	Marek Kimmel Evolution of the genome and Waterman's algorithm.
3:00PM	Bo Peng Stochastic model of evolution of human genetic diseases
3:20PM	Pawel Paszek Stochasticity in regulation of gene transcription
3:40PM	Zeljko Jericevic Approximate solution of dense linear systems
4:20PM	Van leaves TSU for hotel