Cops and Robbers

Imagine an intruder is loose on a network, and you are trying to capture them. You control a team of searchers, and both you and the intruder have clear rules about the limits of your powers. For example, you could be restricted to move only to nodes, and move between nodes which share a connection….

GRADCafe: an experiment with positive results.

GRADCafe is a meeting. An experiment. A movement. It is a synthesis of the World Cafe technique for hosting large discussions, and a social event (with food!) for graduate students at Ryerson. The idea for GRADCafe came about in Graduate Studies out of a desire to engage our graduate students in a less formal setting…

Welcome

Welcome to my first foray into the blogosphere…  I’m Anthony Bonato, an academic, mathematician, Professor, Associate Dean, former Chair of Mathematics. A little about myself. I work in graph theory, with applications to big, complex networks such as the web graph and social networks. I also work on graph searching, which considers intruders on networks and their…