Invited Speakers

• Mike Albertson (Smith College, USA),
  • Independence ratios of nearly planar graphs*
    
• Brian Alspach (University of Regina, Canada)
  • Honeycomb tori and Cayley graphs on generalized diheral groups*
    
• Dragoš Cvetković (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
  • Graphs with extremal energy tend to have a small number of distinct eigenvalues*
    
• Marston Conder (Auckland University, New Zealand )
  • Chirality, genera and simplicity of orientably-regular maps*
    
• Michel Marie Deza (École Normale Supérieure, France)
  • Zigzag and central circuit structure of two-faced plane graphs*
    
• Edward Dobson (Mississippi State University, USA)
  • On automorphism groups of vertex-transitive graphs*
    
• David Eppstein (University of California, Irvine, USA)
  • Geometry of partial cube graphs*
• Chris Godsil (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Erdős-Ko -Rado theorems*
    
• Branko Grünbaum (University of Washington, Seattle, USA )
  • Small polyhedral models of the torus, the projective plane and the Klein bottle*
    
• Jan Kratochvíl (Charles University, Czech Republi c )
  • Geometric intersection graphs*
    
• Jin Ho Kwak (Pohang Institute of Technology, South Korea)
  • On Hurwitz theory: enumerating branched surface coverings*

• Moshe Rosenfeld (University of Washington,Tacoma, USA)
  • Famous and lesser known problems in "elementary" combinatorial geometry and number theory*
    
• Sergey Shpectorov (University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Partial cubes and other l₁- graphs
    
• Paul Terwilliger (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
  • Distance-regular graphs and the quantum affine algebra Uq(sl2)
    
• Mark E. Watkins (Syracuse University, USA)
  • Infinite Planar Tessellations*
    

* - abstract received