The Barbados workshop

Report on the Barbados Workshop.

The HUPO Workshop on “Test Samples for Quantitative Proteomics” was held in Barbados January 9–16, 2009 at the McGill Bellairs Research Institute co-chaired by Drs. Jan van Oostrum (Chair, HUPO Industrial Advisory Board) and John Bergeron (McGill University). The Workshop was organized by Ms. Sylvie Ouellette (Administrative Coordinator, HUPO). The Workshop built on the foundation of a HUPO tes...

Open Problems for the Barbados Graph Theory Workshop 2017

A graph G is k-colourable with defect d, or simply (k, d)-colourable, if each vertex v of G can be assigned one of k colours so that at most d neighbours of v are assigned the same colour as v. That is, each monochromatic subgraph has maximum degree at most d. Let’s focus on minimising the number of colours k rather than the degree bound d. This viewpoint motivates the following definition [7]....

Open Problems for the Barbados Graph Theory Workshop 2016

1. The particular case of Borsuk graphs is very interesting and amounts to the existence of a tournament (or in fact semicomplete digraph) whose vertices are the points of the sphere Sd and out-neighborhoods have low chromatic number. For instance bipartite outneighborhoods would be that every out-neighborhood avoids a ”fat equator” of the sphere. I think that the following question is extremel...

Rowing to Barbados

In October 2003, sixteen boats set off from La Gomera in the Canary Islands headed for Barbados 4800 km distant. Each boat was manned by two oarsmen who were competing in the Transatlantic Challenge, an ocean rowing endurance event. This paper describes an optimization model developed for route planning in this event. It was used successfully by the Holiday Shoppe team to win the race in world ...

Moving Barbados Forward