C&O Prof Talk With Professor Penny Haxell

Hello everyone! Our C&O Prof Talk with Professor Penny Haxell is coming up soon! The talk is on Graph Theory for the Cruise Director. Interesting title! Abstract: The cruise director on a luxury cruise ship is responsible for arranging all the social events on board. How can the passengers be organised into harmonious groups for dinner seating or excursions? How can we find a good way to assign partners for an evening of tango lessons? We can formulate these questions as certain graph colouring and matching problems, that have particularly beautiful solutions. We'll even solve one of them together on the spot, using a human computer made up of audience members. Food will be provided to members. Bring your friends and learn some math! Hope to see you there! Date: February 5 Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM Location: DC 1304