Lectures: 12:45pm—2:00pm Tue, Thu. Blocker 121.
Instructor: Chun-Hung Liu, Blocker 631B, chliu (at) math (dot) tamu (dot) edu.
Office hours: 2:00pm-3:00pm Tue, or by appointments (Zoom or face-to-face)
Textbook: No required textbook.
The following books are good references:
“Introduction to Graph Theory”, 2nd edition, by Douglas B. West. Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-014400-2. (The ISBN might have changed to 9780131437371.)
“Graph Theory”, 5th edition, by Reinhard Diestel. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-662-53621-6.
“The Probabilistic Method”, 4th edition, by Noga Alon and Joel H. Spencer. Wiley, ISBN 978-1119061953.
Course Description: Graph coloring is a main topic in graph theory and drives the modern development of combinatorics. This course addresses various topics in graph coloring and covers important related methods that were also used in other areas in combinatorics.
Prerequisites: MATH 613 or equivalent.
Syllabus (This document contains important information about this course. Please read it carefully.) (This document might be revised during the first week of the semester.)
Tentative schedule (This schedule might be updated frequently during the semester without notification.)
Homework assignments:
Questions for homework assignments will be announced at Gradescope.
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