The UC Berkeley Combinatorics Seminar
Fall 2004
November 22, 2004, 2:10-3:00, Location: 939 Evans Hall





Scheduling CCRR tournaments

Esther Lamken

Caltech and UC Berkeley




Abstract


In this talk, I will describe how to construct CCRRs, complete coupling round robin schedules. The motivation for these schedules is a problem in scheduling bridge tournaments with the table-of-four format. The techniques come from combinatorial design theory, however I will emphasize direct constructions. So the talk should be accessible to students with an interest in scheduling problems and combinatorics.