## November 2022

### Jungho Ahn (안정호), Unified almost linear kernels for generalized covering and packing problems on nowhere dense classes

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of graphs, and let $p$ and $r$ be nonnegative integers. The $(p,r,\mathcal{F})$-Covering problem asks whether for a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, there exists

### Sebastian Wiederrecht, Excluding single-crossing matching minors in bipartite graphs

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

By a seminal result of Valiant, computing the permanent of (0, 1)-matrices is, in general, #P-hard. In 1913 Pólya asked for which (0, 1)-matrices A it is possible to change

### Seonghyuk Im (임성혁), A proof of the Elliott-Rödl conjecture on hypertrees in Steiner triple systems

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

A linear $3$-graph is called a (3-)hypertree if there exists exactly one path between each pair of two distinct vertices.  A linear $3$-graph is called a Steiner triple system if

## December 2022

### Giannos Stamoulis, Model-Checking for First-Order Logic with Disjoint Paths Predicates in Proper Minor-Closed Graph Classes

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

The disjoint paths logic, FOL+DP,  is an extension of First Order Logic (FOL) with the extra atomic predicate $\mathsf{dp}_k(x_1,y_1,\ldots,x_k,y_k),$ expressing the existence of internally vertex-disjoint paths between $x_i$ and $y_i,$

### Stijn Cambie, The 69-conjecture and more surprises on the number of independent sets

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

Various types of independent sets have been studied for decades. As an example, the minimum number of maximal independent sets in a connected graph of given order is easy to

## January 2023

### Youngho Yoo (유영호), Approximating TSP walks in subcubic graphs

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

The Graphic Travelling Salesman Problem is the problem of finding a spanning closed walk (a TSP walk) of minimum length in a given connected graph. The special case of the

### Mamadou Moustapha Kanté, MSOL-Definable decompositions

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

I will first introduce the notion of recognisability of languages of terms and then its extensions to sets of relational structures. In a second step, I will discuss relations with

### Noleen Köhler, Twin-Width VIII: Delineation and Win-Wins

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

We introduce the notion of delineation. A graph class $\mathcal C$ is said delineated by twin-width (or simply, delineated) if for every hereditary closure $\mathcal D$ of a subclass of

### Abhishek Methuku, A proof of the Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

The Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture (posed in 1972) states that the chromatic index of any linear hypergraph on n vertices is at most n. In this talk, I will sketch a proof

## February 2023

### Raphael Steiner, Strengthening Hadwiger’s conjecture for 4- and 5-chromatic graphs

Room B332 IBS (기초과학연구원)

Hadwiger's famous coloring conjecture states that every t-chromatic graph contains a $K_t$-minor. Holroyd conjectured the following strengthening of Hadwiger's conjecture: If G is a t-chromatic graph and S⊆V(G) takes all

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