Ralucca M. Gera
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Department of Applied Mathematics
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA  93943

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS


Invited talks   Contributed talks   Other presentations

  Invited talks
1998 "Research Experience for Undergraduates", seminar talk, Hope College, September
  "Semigroup Rings", Pi Mu Epsilon talk, Western Michigan University, September
  "The Money Changing Problem", Pi Mu Epsilon talk, St. Norberth College, November
     
2005 "Stratification and Domination in Graphs." Metron Inc., DC, January
  "Stratification and Domination in Graphs." University of Central Arkansas, February
  "Stratification and Domination in Graphs." SUNY at Brockport, NY, February
  "Stratification and Domination in Graphs." Trinity College, CT, February
  "Stratification and Domination in Graphs." The Citadel, SC, February
     
2006 "Dominator Colorings and Safe Clique Partitions", colloquium talk at Texas State University at San Marcos, September
  "Alliance Partition in Graphs", colloquium talk at United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, November
  On Dominator Colorings and Safe Clique Partitions, invited speaker at the Graph Theory Day 52, November
  "Alliances in Graphs", colloquium talk at Fairfiled University, CT, November
     
2007 "Global Alliance Partition Number", Honors Math Camp at Texas State University, San Marcos, June
  "Dynamic Domination in Graphs", University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, June
     
2008 "Graph Theory Looking for CS Applications", Computer Science Dept., NPS, Feb
  "A survey of some domination parameters in graphs", Juniata College, April
  "Security in Graphs", Texas A&M University Galveston, August
     

 
Contributed Talks
1999 "A Length Inequality In Complete Numerical Semigroup Rings", joint algebra talk with Leanne Leer, San Antonio Joint Meetings, January 1999.
  "Domination in Graphs", Graph theory seminar, Western Michigan University, December 1999.
   

 

2000 "On Geodomination in Graphs", The Thirty-first Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at Florida Atlantic University, March 2000.
     
2001 "Which Graphs are Divisor Graphs", The Thirty-second Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at Louisiana State University, February 2001.
     
2002 "The Graduate Programs in Mathematics at Western Michigan University", Fourth Annual Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Calvin College, February 2002.
  "On K-Geodomination in Graphs", Graph theory seminar, Western Michigan University, February 2002.
 

"On K-Geodomination in Graphs", The Thirty-third Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at Florida Atlantic University, March 2002.

     
2003 "Divisor Graphs", The Thirty-fourth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at Florida Atlantic University, March 2003.
  "Stratification and Domination in Oriented Graphs", Graph theory seminar, Western Michigan University, April 2003.
     
2004 "On F-domination in Stratified Graphs.", The Thirty-fifth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at Florida Atlantic University, March 2004.
  "On Stratification and Domination in Graphs.", The 17th Cumberland Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Computing. at Middle Tennessee State University, May 2004.
  "Stratified Domination in Graphs.", Midwest Graph Theory Conference (MIGHTY) at Ball State University, Nov. 2004.
     
2005 "Stratified Domination in Graphs", Joint Mathematics Meeting in Atlanta, GA, January 5-8th
  "Stratified Domination in Digraphs", The Thirty-sixth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing in Boca Raton, FL, March 7-11th
  "Stratified Domination in Graphs", Midwest Graph Theory Conference (MIGHTY XL) in Saginaw, MI, April 17
     
2006

 

"Dominator Colorings and Safe Clique Partitions", The Thirty-seventh Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing in Boca Raton, FL, March 6-10
  "The Minimum Sum Vertex Cover Problem", SIAM conference on Discrete Mathematics University of Victoria British Columbia, Canada, June 25
  "Alliance Partition Number in Graphs", "The Twentieth Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing (MCCCC), Wichita State University, Kansas, on October 5-7.

 

"On Dominator Colorings in Graphs", Math department colloquium talk, NPS

 

"Dominator Colorings and Ad-Hoc Networks", The Army Operations Research Symposium, November 7-9, at Ft Lee, Virginia.
     
2007 "Alliance Partitions in Graphs ", Joint Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 5-8th
  "On Dominator Colorings in Graphs", The Thirty-eight Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing in Boca Raton, FL, March 5-9th
  "On the Dominator Colorings in Bipartite Graphs", Information Technology: New Generations in Las Vegas, April 2-4
  "Global Alliance Partitions in Graphs", Math Fest, San Jose August 3-5th
  "Open Dominator Colorings", MCCC, Charleston, SC, October 13-17th
     
2008 "Dynamic Domination", Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, Jan 6-9th
  " Independence in Generalized Petersen Graphs" 39th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, FL, March 3-7th
  "On the Friendship Theorem" The 46th Midwestern Graph Theory  Conference, Morganwtown, WV, April 25-26th.
  "An Extension of strongly regular graphs", SIAM conference on Discrete Mathematics in Burlington, VT, June 16-19
  "Pizza Delivery: 2-Stop-Return Distances in Graphs", Math Fest, Madison, WI, July 30th-Aug 1st.
     
2009 "Set Colorings in graphs", Math Fest, Portland, OR, Aug.
     
2010 "Link Graphs-- A Tool for Word Sense Disambiguation ", Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, Jan 13-16th
  "Choosing a central location for multiple deliveries," 41st Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, FL, March 3-7th
  "Triangular Line Graphs: Tools for Word Ambiguity Detection in Automated Search" SIAM conference on Discrete Mathematics, Austin, TX, June 14-17
  "Triangular Line Graph: A Tool for Word Sense Disambiguation," 8th French Combinatorial Conference, Orsay, France, June-July
 

"Functigraphs: A generalization of Permutation graphs," MathFest 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 6-8

     
2011 "Functigraphs: A generalization of Permutation graphs," Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, Jan 6-9th
     
2012 "Closed 3-stop Distance in Graphs", Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, Jan 4-7th
     
     
     
future SIAM Conference on Discrete Math 2012, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 18-21
talks    

  Other
2002 Midwest Regional Conference of National Association of Graduate Professional Student Conference, Western Michigan University, March 2002.
  Midwest Regional Conference of National Association of Graduate Professional Student Conference, St. Louis, October 2002.
2004 Lobbied on behalf of NAGPS] in D.C. as part of the Grad-Tax Jun. 2004 Lobby Conference of National. Association of Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS); Washington, D.C., Jun. 2004.
  19th Annual 2002 National Conference of National Association of Graduate and Professional Students(NAGPS); Pittsburgh, Nov. 2004.