Math 451: Graph Theory

Spring 2018


Preparing a course schedule is typically an exercise in fiction-writing. However, we hope to roughly follow this schedule:

Date Lecture Notes Assigned Reading
Week 1
1/30 Introduction and Basic Definitions Notes Sections 1.1, 1.2
2/1 Common Classes of Graphs Notes Sections 1.3, 1.4
Week 2
2/6 Connectivity, Bipartite Graphs Notes Sections 2.1, 2.2
2/8 Degrees, Regular Graphs Notes Sections 2.3, 2.4
Week 3
2/13 Degree Sequences and Matrices Notes Sections 3.1, 3.2
2/15 Graph Isomorphism Notes Section 3.4
Week 4
2/20 Trees Notes Sections 4.1, 4.2
2/22 Minimum Spanning Trees Notes Section 4.3
Week 5
2/27 Counting Spanning Trees Notes Section 4.4
3/1 Connectivity Notes Sections 5.1, 5.2
Week 6
3/6 Connectivity Notes Section 5.3
3/8 Midterm 1 (Chapters 1-4)
Week 7
3/13 Connectivity Notes Sections 5.4
3/15 Connectivity Notes Sections 5.5
Spring Break
3/20
3/22
Week 8
3/27 Eulerian Graphs Notes Section 6.1
3/29 Hamiltonian Graphs Notes Section 6.2
Week 9
4/3 Hamiltonian Walks Notes Sections 6.4 and 6.5
4/5 Digraphs Notes Section 7.1
Week 10
4/10 Tournaments Section 7.2
4/12 Tournaments Notes Section 8.1
Week 11
4/17 Random Walks Section 8.2
4/19 Decomposition and the Peterson Graph Notes Sections 8.3, 8.5
Week 12
4/24 Planarity Notes Section 9.1
4/26 Midterm 2 (Chapters 5-8)
Week 13
5/1 Planarity Section 9.2
5/3 Planarity Notes Section 9.3
Week 14
5/8 The four (five) color theorem Notes Section 10.1
5/10 Vertex Coloring Notes Section 10.2
Week 15
5/15 Edge Coloring Section 10.3
5/17 Final Exam (10:15 AM)