"Courage is better than a faint heart for any man who sticks his nose out of doors.
The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago."
Norse saying, quoted from The Norse Myths -- Gods of the Vikings, by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
William Kocay is a member of St. Paul's College
at the University of Manitoba, and a member of the Computer Science Department.
- Mailing address:
- William Kocay
- Computer Science Department
- University of Manitoba
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- CANADA, R3T 2N2
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- St. Paul's College
- University of Manitoba
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- CANADA, R3T 2N2
- e-mail:
- bkocay at cc.umanitoba.ca
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- bkocay at cs.umanitoba.ca
- telephone:
- (204) 474-6792
- Bill Kocay is the author of Groups & Graphs, a
software package for graphs, digraphs, combinatorial designs, projective configurations,
polyhedra, graph embeddings in the torus and projective plane, and automorphism groups.
It also constructs fractals.
Click for information on downloading Groups & Graphs.
- Bill Kocay is a co-author, with Don Kreher, of the textbook
Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press,
Boca Raton, 2005. It is a suitable text for a course at the second, third, or fourth year level
in graph theory, graph algorithms, or linear optimization. It is available from the publisher, or from
amazon.com and other retailers.
- Bill Kocay is a former Managing Editor (from Jan 1988 to May 1997) of
Ars Combinatoria,
a Canadian journal of combinatorial mathematics. Click for information on
submitting papers to Ars Combinatoria and for tables of contents of recent volumes.
- Bill Kocay is a founding fellow of the
Institute of Combinatorics and its Application.
- Bill Kocay is a founding member of the Manitoba
Be Users Group.
- Research interests include algorithms for graphs, the development of mathematical software,
the graph reconstruction problem, the graph isomorphism problem, projective geometry, hamiltonian
cycles, planarity, graph embedding algorithms, graphs on surfaces, combinatorial designs, etc.
- Click for info on Software Projects done by some of my students.
Currently there are three projects available.
Visit Bill Kocay's River Running Pages for maps, photos,
and information on Manitoba rivers.
Personal Interests
Recommended Reading
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"Kill Zone -- A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza", by Craig Roberts.
Ever wonder who was behind the JFK assassination? Read Craig Roberts "Kill Zone". Roberts was a sniper
in Vietnam. When he visited the JFK assassination site, and looked out the window of the warehouse from which
Oswald is supposed to have shot, he knew instantly that the official story was a physical impossibility.
No sniper could have made those shots. This started him on an investigation for the truth.
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"The Mission of Joan of Arc", by Joan Edmunds.
The inspiring and heart-rending story of the Maid of Orleans, the 19 year old girl
who saved France from the English
invasion. Based on the transcripts of her trial and of her
rehabilitation proceedings.
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Websites of Interest
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