The fourth day of the conference began with a slightly rescheduled programme. Professor Szwarcfiter (Brazil) chairing the Session 10. Professor B.D. Acharya (India) delivered the first invited talk of the day (this was originally scheduled to be the last talk of the day) at 08.30 Hours on "Representing Hypergraphs by families of sets with given properties". At 0915 Hours (IST) Professor Douglas Rall (USA) delivered an invited talk on "Packing and Domination invariants in cartesian products and direct products". This was followed by the Plenary talk by Professor H. S. Wilf (USA) on "Refinements of Ramanujan's Congruence modulo 5".
At 11.30 Hours (IST), Session 11 commenced under the chairmanship of Professor Jaikumar Radhakrishnan. Professor S. Arumugam (India) delivered an invited talk on "Independent Domination and Graph Colorings". This was followed by an invited talk by Professor Bruno Courcelle on "Graph Equivalences and decompositions definable in monodic second-order logic. The case of circle graphs".
The last session of the conference was chaired by Professor Xuding Zhu (China), which commenced at 14.15 Hours (IST). The first invited talk of the session was delivered by Professor Johannes Hattingh on "Some recent results on total restrained domination". This was followed by the last invited Talk by Professor H. B. Walikar (India) on "Consecutive trees with respect to energy ". At 16.15 Hours (IST), the formal Valedictory Function commenced with Professor R. Balakrishnan giving concluding remarks. Professor S.R. Jayaram (India), Professor Douglas Rall (USA) and Professor Renu Laskar (USA) gave their feedback. Professor Jayaram briefed the summarised feedback, which he had collected from several participants. He was of the opinion that the conference was very well organised and served the needs of the researchers in Discrete Mathematics effectively. Professor Rall also had excellent opinion about the conference and hoped that he would meet the participants again in another conference soon. He wished that the organisers will be able to organise more such conferences in the near future. Professor Renu Laskar expressed her pleasure about the organization of the conference. The function concluded with Vote of Thanks given by Professor C.R. Pradeep, wherein, he heartily thanked all the members of the Local Organizing Committee, the Caterers for nice food arrangements, M/s Hi-Tours for the conveyance and assistance provided the Speakers from abroad and two efficient secretaries at IMI, Mrs. Rama and Mrs. Vasuki for all the cooperation and help extended to the organisers during the conference.
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