Karen L. Collins

Karen L. Collins

``Truth for authority, not authority for truth.''

-----------------------------Lucretia Mott.

Discrete Mathematics Day at Wesleyan University, October 5, 2013

Discrete Mathematics Day at Wesleyan University, Feb. 26, 2005,
Preprints/Reprints
Pictures
Program
Poster

Haiku. A poem in honor of Joan Hutchinson's 60th birthday, and in memory of Lucia Krompart, presented at Graph Theory with Altitude, May 18, 2005 in Denver, CO. Some pictures from the conference. Preprint, with Ann Trenk, on the distinguishing chromatic number.

The poem Pi, by Wislawa Szymborska, read by Frank Lepkowski in memory of Lucia Krompart, at her memorial service, March 2002.

At Richard P. Stanley's

Birthday Conference,

June 23, 2004

See a photo of KLC's painting in honor of his 60th birthday

I am a Professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan University.
You can reach me by e-mail, at kcollins (at) wesleyan.edu,
or at kcollins (at) member.ams.org,
by telephone at (860) 685-2169,
by fax at (860) 685-2571,
or by mail at: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT 06459-0128.
I am married to Mark Hovey, see in picture far below, who is a Professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan.
I received my B. A. from Smith College in 1981,
and my Ph.D. from the Mathematics Department of MIT in 1986.
My specialty is Combinatorics and Graph Theory.
Here is my publications list.
I am on the steering committee for the combinatorics conference series, Discrete Mathematics Days in the Northeast.
I was on the steering committee for the combinatorics conference series, Discrete Mathematics in New England, 2002-2004. The CoNE meetings ran from April, 1992 until May, 2001.
Workshop in Teaching Combinatorics by Guided Discovery, co-leader with Ken Bogart, August 11-15, 2003 at Dartmouth College.
Graph Coloring and Symmetry, an AMS Summer Research Conference, Sunday, July 21--Thursday, July 25, 2002, at Mt. Holyoke College, co-organizers Danny Krizanc (Wesleyan), and Alex Russell (UConn).
Judge for the Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition, December 2001, a national competition for high school seniors.

	Benjamin Shemmer, my latest undergraduate thesis student and co-author, gave a poster in the undergraduate poster session sponsored by the MAA in New Orleans in January 2001, and achieved his B. A. in May 2001. He will be a graduate student in the mathematics program at Emory this fall.
	Zhongyuan Che graduated with a Ph. D. in mathematics (with me) and a Master's degree in Computer Science (with Mike Rice) in May 2003, and now is an assistant professor of mathematics at Penn State Beaver. She gave a talk at the national AMS meetings in Baltimore in January 2003, and a talk at the Horizons in Combinatorics meeting, held at Vanderbilt University, May 21-24, 2001.
	Kimber Tysdal graduated with a her Ph. D. in mathematics (with me) in May 2001 and now is an assistant professor at Hood College. She gave a poster presentation in the AWM Workshop at the Joint Meetings in New Orleans in January, 2001.

Fall 2006

Spring 2007

Invited Addresses

Graph Homomorphisms and Graph Cores, Retrospective in Combinatorics: Honoring Stanley's 60th Birthday, June 22-26, 2004.
Graph Cores and Kneser Graphs, seminar talk at the Université du Québec à Montréal, May 2003.
Constructions of 3-Colorable Cores, in the minisymposium Graph Homomorphisms at the SIAM Discrete Math meeting, August 11-14, 2002.
Constructions of 3-chromatic Graph Cores, at the Joint Math Meetings at San Diego, January 2002, in the special session, The Many Lives of Lattice Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets, with Connections to Combinatorics, organized by Jonathan Farley and Stefan Schmidt.

	Graph Homomorphisms and Coloring, was the very last talk of the very first	Conference in Celebration of Smith College Alumnae Mathematicians	April 21-22, 2001 at Smith College. A good time was had by all.