Sepehr Hajebi, The pathwidth theorem for induced subgraphs

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We present a full characterization of the unavoidable induced subgraphs of graphs with large pathwidth. This consists of two results. The first result says that for every forest H, every graph of sufficiently large pathwidth contains either a large complete subgraph, a large complete bipartite induced minor, or an induced minor isomorphic to H. The

Irene Muzi, An elementary bound for Younger’s conjecture

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In 1996, Reed, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas proved Younger's Conjecture, which states that for all directed graphs D, there exists a function f such that if D does not contain k disjoint cycles, D contains a feedback vertex set, i.e. a subset of vertices whose deletion renders the graph acyclic, of size bounded by f(k).

Johannes Carmesin, Open problems in graph theory

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Since the proof of the graph minor structure theorem by Robertson and Seymour in 2004, its underlying ideas have found applications in a much broader range of settings than their original context. They have driven profound progress in areas such as vertex minors, pivot minors, matroids, directed graphs, and 2-dimensional simplicial complexes. In this talk,

Michał Seweryn, Dimension and standard examples in planar posets

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The dimension of a poset is the least integer d such that the poset is isomorphic to a subposet of the product of d linear orders. In 1983, Kelly constructed planar posets of arbitrarily large dimension. Crucially, the posets in his construction involve large standard examples, the canonical structure preventing a poset from having small

Hyunwoo Lee (이현우), Reconstructing hypergraph matching polynomials

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By utilizing the recently developed hypergraph analogue of Godsil's identity by the second author, we prove that for all nk2, one can reconstruct the matching polynomial of an n-vertex k-uniform hypergraph from the multiset of all induced sub-hypergraphs on k1kn+1 vertices. This generalizes the well-known result of

Marcelo Garlet Milani, Cycles of Well-Linked Sets and an Elementary Bound for the Directed Grid Theorem

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In 2015, Kawarabayashi and Kreutzer proved the directed grid theorem. The theorem states the existence of a function f such that every digraph of directed tree-width f(k) contains a cylindrical grid of order k as a butterfly minor, but the given function grows non-elementarily with the size of the grid minor. We present an alternative

Daniel McGinnis, A necessary and sufficient condition for k-transversals

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We solve a long-standing open problem posed by Goodman and Pollack in 1988 by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition for a finite family of convex sets in Rd to admit a k-transversal (a k-dimensional affine subspace that intersects each set) for any 0kd1. This result is a common generalization of

Nicola Lorenz, A Minor Characterisation of Normally Spanned Sets of Vertices

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A rooted spanning tree of a graph G is called normal if the endvertices of all edges of G are comparable in the tree order. It is well known that every finite connected graph has a normal spanning tree (also known as depth-first search tree). Also, all countable graphs have normal spanning trees, but uncountable

Marcin Briański, Burling Graphs as (almost) universal obstacles to χ-boundedness

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What causes a graph to have high chromatic number? One obvious reason is containing a large clique (a set of pairwise adjacent vertices). This naturally leads to investigation of χ-bounded classes of graphs --- classes where a large clique is essentially the only reason for large chromatic number. Unfortunately, many interesting graph classes are not

Pascal Schweitzer, Recent insights surrounding combinatorial approaches to isomorphism and symmetry problems

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Modern practical software libraries that are designed for isomorphism tests and symmetry computation rely on combinatorial techniques combined with techniques from algorithmic group theory. The Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm is such a combinatorial technique. When taking a certain view from descriptive complexity theory, the algorithm is universal. After an introduction to problems arising in symmetry computation and

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