## March 2023

### Tianchi Yang, On the maximum number of edges in k-critical graphs

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

In this talk, we will discuss the problem of determining the maximum number of edges in an n-vertex k-critical graph. A graph is considered k-critical if its chromatic number is k, but any proper subgraph has a chromatic number less than k. The problem remains open for any integer k ≥ 4. Our presentation will

## April 2023

### István Tomon, Configurations of boxes

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

Configurations of axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^d$ are extensively studied in combinatorial geometry. Despite their perceived simplicity, there are many problems involving their structure that are not well understood. I will talk about a construction that shows that their structure might be more complicated than people conjectured.

### James Davies, Two structural results for pivot-minors

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

Pivot-minors can be thought of as a dense analogue of graph minors. We shall discuss pivot-minors and two recent results for proper pivot-minor-closed classes of graphs. In particular, that for every graph H, the class of graphs containing no H-pivot-minor is 𝜒-bounded, and also satisfies the (strong) Erdős-Hajnal property.

### Hyunwoo Lee (이현우), On perfect subdivision tilings

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

For a given graph $H$, we say that a graph $G$ has a perfect $H$-subdivision tiling if $G$ contains a collection of vertex-disjoint subdivisions of $H$ covering all vertices of $G.$ Let $\delta_{sub}(n, H)$ be the smallest integer $k$ such that any $n$-vertex graph $G$ with minimum degree at least $k$ has a perfect $H$-subdivision

## May 2023

### Rob Morris, An exponential improvement for diagonal Ramsey

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

The Ramsey number $R(k)$ is the minimum n such that every red-blue colouring of the edges of the complete graph on n vertices contains a monochromatic copy of $K_k$. It has been known since the work of Erdős and Szekeres in 1935, and Erdős in 1947, that $2^{k/2} < R(k) < 4^k$, but in the

### Maria Chudnovsky, TBA

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

### Oliver Janzer, TBA

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

### Suyun Jiang (江素云), TBA

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)
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