{"id":2,"date":"2024-04-01T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:01:42","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing is an annual conference that brings together internationally known researchers, industrial mathematicians and computer scientists, and southeastern university and college professors, post-docs, graduates and undergraduate students, to discuss the latest advances in discrete mathematics and computer science.&nbsp;Efforts are made to include faculty and students from smaller institutions throughout the region. Each year, a different university in the Cumberland region hosts the conference, usually in the month of May, immediately after the end of the spring semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, Middle Tennessee State University is pleased to host the Thirty-Second Cumberland Conference on May 13-14, 2023. We are excited to announce that the following leading researchers have agreed to participate as plenary speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/thomasKaiser.png\" alt=\"Tomas Kaiser\" class=\"wp-image-17\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/thomasKaiser.png 231w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/thomasKaiser-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/home.zcu.cz\/~kaisert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tomas Kaiser<\/a><br>(University of West Bohemia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/jinYoungPark.png\" alt=\"Jinyoung Park\" class=\"wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/jinYoungPark.png 231w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/jinYoungPark-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/jinyoungpark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jinyoung Park<\/a><br>(New York University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/lukePostle.png\" alt=\"Luke Postle\" class=\"wp-image-14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/lukePostle.png 231w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/lukePostle-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.uwaterloo.ca\/~lpostle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke Postle<\/a><br>(University of Waterloo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/yufeiZhao.png.png\" alt=\"Yufei Zhao\" class=\"wp-image-18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/yufeiZhao.png.png 231w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/yufeiZhao.png-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yufeizhao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yufei Zhao<\/a><br>(Massachusetts Institute of&nbsp;Technology)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Organizing Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-compact-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.edu\/faculty\/dongye\/\">Dong Ye<\/a>&nbsp;(chair), Middle Tennessee State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/math.vanderbilt.edu\/ellingmn\/\">Mark Ellingham<\/a>, Vanderbilt University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/donald-nelson\">Donald Nelson<\/a>, Middle Tennessee State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.edu\/faculty\/john-charles-saunders\">John C. Saunders<\/a>, Middle Tennessee State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.edu\/faculty\/david-chris-stephens\">Chris Stephens<\/a>, Middle Tennessee State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.edu\/faculty\/xiaoya-zha\">Xiaoya Zha<\/a>, Middle Tennessee State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sponsors<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf logo\" class=\"wp-image-16\" style=\"width:111px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/mtsu.png\" alt=\"mtsu logo\" class=\"wp-image-15\" style=\"width:146px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/cabs.png\" alt=\"mtsu cbas logo\" class=\"wp-image-12\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/cabs.png 500w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2024\/10\/cabs-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN The Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing is an annual conference that brings together internationally known researchers, industrial mathematicians and computer scientists, and southeastern university and college professors, post-docs, graduates and undergraduate students, to discuss the latest advances in discrete mathematics and computer science.&nbsp;Efforts are made to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/cumberland2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}