On February 18, 2020, Dong Yeap Kang from KAIST & IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk on random perturbed graphs. The title of his talk is “Fragile minor-monotone parameters under random edge perturbation“. Dong Yeap will receive the Ph.D. degree at the end of this month from KAIST and will move to University of Birmingham, UK as a postdoc.
Dillon Mayhew gave a talk on analogues of Courcelle’s theorem, in particular to hypergraphs and matroids at the discrete math seminar
On January 28, 2020, Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand gave a talk on problems and results motivated by Courcelle’s theorem, with an emphasis on hypergraphs and matroids. The title of his talk is “Courcelle’s Theorem for hypergraphs“.
Adam Zsolt Wagner gave a talk on an extremal problem in Z_{2^n} at the discrete math seminar
On January 20, 2020, Adam Zsolt Wagner from ETH Zurich gave a talk on the largest subset of $\mathbb Z_{2^n}$ having no projective $d$-cube. The title of his talk was “The largest projective cube-free subsets of $Z_{2^n}$“. He has been visiting IBS discrete mathematics group for a week and will leave on this Wednesday.
Ben Lund gave a talk on the problem on Furstenberg sets over field fields related to the Kakeya conjecture at the discrete math seminar
On January 15, 2020, Ben Lund from Princeton University gave a talk about a generalization of the Kakeya conjecture posed by Ellenberg, Oberlin, and Tao. The title of his talk was “Furstenberg sets over finite fields“. He is visiting the IBS discrete mathematics group until January 21, Tuesday.
Sanjeeb Dash gave a talk on the integer programming approach to the interpretable machine learning at the discrete math seminar
On January 14, 2020, Sanjeeb Dash from IBM T. J. Watson Research presented a talk on the integer programming formulation for the problem arising from the interpretable machine learning. The title of his talk was “Boolean decision rules via column generation“. He is visiting IBS Discrete Mathematics Group until the end of this week.
Jaiung Jun (전재웅) presented a talk on the Hall algebra of the category of matroids at the discrete math seminar
On December 26, Thursday, Jaiung Jun (전재웅) from SUNY New Paltz gave a talk at the discrete math seminar held at KAIST. The title of his talk was “The Hall algebra of the category of matroids“.
Attila Joó gave a talk on the partition of a set into bases of finitary matroids and cofinitary matroids at the discrete math seminar
On December 19, 2019, Attila Joó from University of Hamburg presented a talk on the partitioning of the ground set into bases of finitary and cofinitary matroids at the discrete math seminar. The title of his talk was “Base partition for finitary-cofinitary matroid families“.
Hong Liu gave a talk on the conjecture of Mader about the topological minors in C4-free graphs at the discrete math seminar
On December 12, 2019, Hong Liu from University of Warwick gave a talk on the resolution of the conjecture of Mader on the existence of a complete topological minor under the condition of average degree for C4-free graphs at the discrete math seminar held at KAIST. The title of his talk was “A proof of Mader’s conjecture on large clique subdivisions in $C_4$-free graphs“.
Jakub Gajarský gave a talk on the class of graphs of structurally bounded expansion at the discrete math seminar
On December 10, 2019, Jakub Gajarský from Technische Universität Berlin presented a talk on the class of graphs of structurally bounded expansion and its relationship to the low shrubdepth covers. The title of his talk was “First-order interpretations of bounded expansion classes“.
Frédéric Meunier gave a talk about new bounds on orthogonality dimension of graphs at the discrete math seminar
On November 21, 2019, Frédéric Meunier from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris presented a talk on the orthogonal representations and the orthogonality dimension of graphs at the discrete math seminar. The title of his talk was “Topological bounds for graph representations over any field“.











