On April 2, 2024, Casey Tompkins from the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the maximum number of edges in a graph without cycles of length 0 mod 4. The title of his talk was “On graphs without cycles of length 0 modulo 4“.
Evangelos Protopapas gave a talk on characterizing minor-closed classes of graphs satisfying the Erdős-Pósa properties for minors at the Discrete Math Seminar
On March 26, 2024, Evangelos Protopapas from LIRMM gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on characterizing minor-closed classes of graphs satisfying the Erdős-Pósa properties for minors. The title of his talk was “Erdős-Pósa Dualities for Minors“.
Linda Cook gave a talk on bounding the average degree of a graph with no subgraph isomorphic to a fixed complete bipartite subgraph or a subdivision of a fixed graph at the Discrete Math Seminar
On March 12, 2024, Linda Cook from the IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar about bounding the average degree of a graph with no subgraph isomorphic to a fixed complete bipartite graph or a subdivision of a fixed graph by a polynomial function of the size of the complete bipartite graph. The title of her talk was “On polynomial degree-boundedness“.
William Cook gave a colloquium talk on the Traveling Salesman Problem
On March 6, 2024, William Cook from the University of Waterloo gave a colloquium talk on the Traveling Salesman Problem. The title of his talk was “The Traveling Salesman Problem: Amazon Deliveries, Pub Walks, and Astro Tours“.
Jie Han gave a talk on the complexity of deciding the existence of a perfect matching in k-uniform hypergraphs under various degree conditions at the Discrete Math Seminar
On February 27, 2024, Jie Han (韩杰) from the Beijing Institute of Technology gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the complexity of deciding the existence of a perfect matching in k-uniform hypergraphs under various degree conditions. The title of his talk was “Perfect matchings in dense uniform hypergraphs“. Jie Han will stay at IBS for two months.
Sebastian Wiederrecht gave a talk on the 1/4-integral Erdős-Pósa property of even directed cycles at the Discrete Math Seminar
On February 14, 2024, Sebastian Wiederrecht from the IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar, showing that the even directed cycles have the 1/4-integral Erdős-Pósa property. The title of his talk was “Packing even directed circuits quarter-integrally“.
Ander Lamaison gave a talk on the uniform Turán density of a hypergraph at the Discrete Math Seminar
On February 6, 2024, Ander Lamaison from the IBS Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the uniform Turán density of a hypergraph. The title of his talk is “Uniform Turán density beyond 3-graphs“.
Zichao Dong gave a talk on a variation of the Erdős-Szekeres problem among points of bounded pairwise distances at the Discrete Math Seminar
On January 23, 2024, Zichao Dong from the IBS Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on a d-dimensional analog of a variation of the Erdős-Szekeres problem among n points of bounded pairwise distances. The title of his talk was “Convex polytopes in non-elongated point sets in R^d“.
Matthew Kroeker gave a talk on the average number of points on affine subspaces determined by points at the Discrete Math Seminar
On January 16, 2024, Matthew Kroeker from the University of Waterloo gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the average number of points on planes (or affine subspaces) determined by points. The title of his talk was “Average flat-size in complex-representable matroids“.
Jinyoung Park (박진영) gave a talk on the number of antichains of subsets of an n-element set at the Discrete Math Seminar
On January 11, 2024, Jinyoung Park (박진영) from NYU gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the number of antichains of subsets of an n-element set. The title of her talk was “Dedekind’s Problem and beyond“.











