The Mathematics Department at Illinois State University (ISU) has a strong Discrete Mathematics Group. The group, usually called DISCMATH for brevity, is very active in research and professional service, as well as providing enthusiastic and dedicated teaching for students at master’s level and all undergraduate levels.
The DISCMATH group convenes a regular weekly seminar program, which runs throughout the Fall and Spring semesters and logs around 20-30 talks each academic year. Meetings last 50 minutes, followed by an informal social gathering. Most talks report on recent results or research in progress, but occasional expository and survey talks are included. Speakers usually are ISU faculty members of DISCMATH, but also include graduate students, invited speakers from other institutions, and visitors to the ISU Mathematics Department (often the Department hosts one or more long term visitors in Discrete Mathematics).
The regular seminar is currently on pause, and will be coming back soon. If you want to give a talk, please send an email to Papa Sissokho (user name “psissok” and domain name “ilstu” then DOT “edu).
Past Conferences at ISU
34th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing
Conference coincides with a celebration of Saad El‑Zanati, October 21–23, 2022
30th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing
Conference coincides with a celebration of Michael Plantholt, October 14-16, 2016
24th Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing
In Honor of Roger B. Eggleton, September 10-12, 2010
Mathematical abundance Conference
In Honor of Charlie Vanden Eynden, April 18-19, 2008
Current and Emeriti Faculty in Discrete Math
o Amin Bahmaninan (Ph.D., Auburn 2012), Associate Professor
o Papa Amar Sissokho, (Ph.D., Emory 2003), Professor.
o Saad El-Zanati, (Ph.D., Auburn 1991), Professor Emeritus
o Roger Eggleton, (Ph.D., Calgary 1973), Professor Emeritus
o Michael Plantholt, (Ph.D., Michigan 1982), Professor Emeritus
o Shailesh Tipnis, (Ph.D., Cornell 1986), Professor Emeritus
o Charles Vanden Eynden, (Ph.D., Oregon 1962), Professor Emeritus.
Past Visitors
Some past Visitors of the DISCMATH Group
- Thor Whalen (Independent Mathematics Consultant, USA)
- Peter Adams (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Brian Alspach (Simon Frasier University & University of Regina)
- Sergei Bezrukov (University of Wisconsin at Superior)
- Andrew Blinco (University of Queensland & Auburn University)
- Darryn Bryant (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Nicholas Cavenagh (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Diane Donovan (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Dalibor Froncek (University of Minnesota at Duluth)
- Hung-Lin Fu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
- Peter Horak (University of Washington-Tacoma)
- Abdollah Khodkar (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Andre Kundgen (California State University, San Marcos)
- Nikolai Kuzjurin (Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
- Jiujiang Liu (Eastern Michigan University)
- Jim MacDougall (University of Newcastle, Australia)
- Barbara Maenhaut (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Michal Morayne (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
- Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
- Narong Punnim (Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand)
- Ian Roberts (Charles Darwin University, Australia)
- Chris Rodger (Auburn University)
- Jozef Skokan (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Vijaya Lakshmi Venkatajalam (Bombay University, India)
- Matt Walsh (Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne)