• Minki Kim (김민기), Rainbow paths and rainbow matchings

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    We prove that if $n \geq 3$, then any family of $3n-3$ sets of matchings of size $n$ in any graph has a rainbow matching of size $n$. This improves on a previous result, in which $3n-3$ is replaced by $3n-2$. We also prove a "cooperative" generalization: for $t > 0$ and $n \geq 3$,

  • Kevin Hendrey, A unified half-integral Erdős-Pósa theorem for cycles in graphs labelled by multiple abelian groups

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    Erdős and Pósa proved in 1965 that there is a duality between the maximum size of a packing of cycles and the minimum size of a vertex set hitting all cycles. Such a duality does not hold if we restrict to odd cycles.  However, in 1999, Reed proved an analogue for odd cycles by relaxing packing

  • Debsoumya Chakraborti, Some classical problems in graph saturation

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    Graph saturation is one of the oldest areas of investigation in extremal combinatorics. A graph $G$ is called $F$-saturated if $G$ does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to $F$, but the addition of any edge creates a copy of $F$. The function $\operatorname{sat}(n,F)$ is defined to be the minimum number of edges in an $n$-vertex

  • Se-Young Yun (윤세영), Regret in Online Recommendation Systems

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    We propose a theoretical analysis of recommendation systems in an online setting, where items are sequentially recommended to users over time. In each round, a user, randomly picked from a population of m users, requests a recommendation. The decision-maker observes the user and selects an item from a catalogue of n items. Importantly, an item

  • Hong Liu (刘鸿), Nested cycles with no geometric crossing

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    In 1975, Erdős asked the following question: what is the smallest function $f(n)$ for which all graphs with $n$ vertices and $f(n)$ edges contain two edge-disjoint cycles $C_1$ and $C_2$, such that the vertex set of $C_2$ is a subset of the vertex set of $C_1$ and their cyclic orderings of the vertices respect each

  • Casey Tompkins, 3-uniform hypergraphs avoiding a cycle of length four

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    We show that that the maximum number of of edges in a $3$-uniform hypergraph without a Berge-cycle of length four is at most $(1+o(1)) \frac{n^{3/2}}{\sqrt{10}}$. This improves earlier estimates by Győri and Lemons and by Füredi and Özkahya. Joint work with Ergemlidze, Győri, Methuku, Salia.

  • William Overman, Some Ordered Ramsey Numbers of Graphs on Four Vertices

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    Ordered Ramsey numbers were introduced in 2014 by Conlon, Fox, Lee, and Sudakov. Their results included upper bounds for general graphs and lower bounds showing separation from classical Ramsey numbers. We show the first nontrivial results for ordered Ramsey numbers of specific small graphs. In particular we prove upper bounds for orderings of graphs on four vertices,

  • Sang-il Oum (엄상일), What is an isotropic system?

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    Bouchet introduced isotropic systems in 1983 unifying some combinatorial features of binary matroids and 4-regular graphs. The concept of isotropic system is a useful tool to study vertex-minors of graphs and yet it is not well  known. I will give an introduction to isotropic systems.

  • Jungho Ahn (안정호), Well-partitioned chordal graphs with the obstruction set and applications

    Room B232 IBS (기초과학연구원)

    We introduce a new subclass of chordal graphs that generalizes split graphs, which we call well-partitioned chordal graphs. Split graphs are graphs that admit a partition of the vertex set into cliques that can be arranged in a star structure, the leaves of which are of size one. Well-partitioned chordal graphs are a generalization of