Math 38

Graph Theory

General Information Schedule and Syllabus Homework and Handouts

Syllabus

Syllabus

Schedule

The plan is to cover the following sections of the book: 1.1-1.4, 2.1-2.3, 3.1, 4.1-4.3, 5.1-5.2, 6.1-6.2, 7.2, 8.3. Here is a rough sketch of the material covered in each class.

Lecture Number Date Sections in Text Brief Description
1 Monday, 3/30 1.1 Introduction, Fundamental Definitions and Examples
2 Wednesday, 4/1 1.1 - 1.2 Isomorphisms, Paths, Connected Graphs
3 Friday, 4/3 1.2 Cut-edges, Bipartite Graphs, Eulerian Circuits
4 Monday, 4/6 1.2 - 1.3 Eulerian Circuits, Extremal Problems
5 Wednesday, 4/8 1.3 Extremal Problems, Graphic Sequences
6 Friday, 4/10 1.4 Directed Graphs, Tournaments
7 Monday, 4/13 2.1 Equivalent Definitions of Trees, Spanning Trees
8 Wednesday, 4/15 2.1 - 2.2 Distance in Graphs, Centers of Trees, Prufer Codes
9 Friday, 4/17 2.2 Cayley's Formula, Counting the Number of Spanning Trees
10 Monday, 4/20 2.3 Minimum Weight Spanning Trees, Kruskal's Algorithm
11 Wednesday, 4/22 2.3 - 3.1 Dijkstra's Algorithm, Matchings
12 Friday, 4/24 3.1 Augmenting Paths, Hall's Condition
13 Monday, 4/27 - First Exam
14 Wednesday, 4/29 3.1 Vertex Covers, Bipartite Graph Results
15 Friday, 5/1 3.1, 4.1 Matchings vs. Edge Covers, Stable Matchings, Connectivity
16 Monday, 5/4 4.1 Connectively, Edge-Connectivity
17 Wednesday, 5/6 4.2 Internally Disjoint Paths, 2-Connectedness, Menger's Theorem
18 Friday, 5/8 4.2, 4.3 Menger's Theorem, Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem (without proofs)
19 Monday, 5/11 5.1 Vertex Coloring, Simple Bounds, Joins and Cartesian Products
20 Wednesday, 5/13 5.1 Greedy Colorings, Brooks' Theorem
21 Friday, 5/15 5.2 Mycielski's Construction, Turan Graphs
22 Monday, 5/18 6.1 Planar Graphs, Euler's Formula
23 Wednesday, 5/20 6.2 Kuratowski's Theorem, Five-Color Theorem, Four-Color Theorem
24 Friday, 5/22 8.3 Ramsey Theory
- Monday, 5/25 - No Class (Memorial Day)
25 Wednesday, 5/27 8.3 Ramsey Theory, Bounding Ramsey Numbers
26 Friday, 5/29 - Random Graphs
27 Monday, 6/1 - Random Graphs, Limit Laws