On December 14, 2021, Tuan Tran from the IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on sufficient conditions for balls in a metric space to have small intersection and their applications. The title of his talk was “Exponential decay of intersection volume with applications on list-decodability and sphere-covering bounds“.
David Munhá Correia gave an online talk on the existence of rainbow matchings at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium
On December 9, 2021, David Munhá Correia from ETH Zürich gave an online talk at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium on the existence of rainbow matchings. The title of his talk was “Rainbow matchings“.
Eun-Kyung Cho (조은경) gave a talk on the minimum independent dominating set at the Discrete Math Seminar
On December 7, 2021, Eun-Kyung Cho (조은경) from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on various upper bounds for the minimum independent dominating set (or, the minimum maximal independent set) in a graph. The title of her talk was “Independent domination of graphs with bounded maximum degree“.
Seonghyuk Im (임성혁) gave a talk on the existence of a large complete topological minor in a graph without small dense subgraphs at the Discrete Math Seminar
On November 30, 2021, Seonghyuk Im (임성혁) from KAIST gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the existence of a large complete topological minor in a graph of bounded average degree when the graph has no small dense subgraphs. The title of his talk was “Large clique subdivisions in graphs without small dense subgraphs“.
Tuukka Korhonen gave an online talk on a faster FPT-approximation algorithm for rank-width at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium
On November 25, 2021, Tuukka Korhonen from the University of Bergen gave an online talk on a faster FPT-approximation algorithm for rank-width at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium. The title of his talk was “Fast FPT-Approximation of Branchwidth“.
Casey Tompkins gave a talk on the poset Ramsey numbers of Boolean lattices at the Discrete Math Seminar
On November 23, 2021, Casey Tompkins from the IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the poset Ramsey number for Boolean lattices. The title of his talk was “Ramsey numbers of Boolean lattices“.
Sebastian Wiederrecht gave an online talk on matching minors in biparite graphs at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium
On November 11, 2021, Sebastian Wiederrecht from LIRMM gave an online talk at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium on building the graph structure theory for matching minors. The title of his talk was “Matching Minors in Bipartite Graphs“.
Jaehoon Kim (김재훈) gave a talk on a sufficient condition for a 2-complex to have a unique embedding in a 3-dimensional space, which is a 3-dimensional analog of Whitney’s theorem on the uniqueness of planar embeddings of a 3-connected graph at the Discrete Math Seminar
On November 9, 2021, Jaehoon Kim (김재훈) from KAIST gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on a 3-dimensional analog of Whitney’s theorem on the uniqueness of planar embeddings of a 3-connected graph. The title of his talk was “2-complexes with unique embeddings in 3-space“.
Martin Milanič gave an online talk on a variation of tree-width of graphs by measuring the width of a tree-decomposition by the size of the largest stable set in a bag at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium
On November 5, 2021, Martin Milanič from the University of Primorska, Slovenia gave an online talk at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium on a variation of tree-width by measuring the width of a tree-decomposition by the size of the largest stable set in a bag and its algorithmic applications to the maximum weight stable set. The title of his talk was “Tree Decompositions with Bounded Independence Number“.
Ben Lund gave a talk on the smallest size of maximal 3-wise intersecting families of sets at the Discrete Math Seminar
On November 2, 2021, Ben Lund from IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk on the smallest possible size of a maximal 3-wise intersecting family of subsets of {1,2,…,n} for large n, answering a problem of Erdős and Kleitman proposed in 1974. The title of his talk was “Maximal 3-wise intersecting families“.