Dennis Wong, Generating Gray codes and universal cycles for weak orders
A weak order is a way to rank n objects where ties are allowed. Weak orders have applications in diverse areas such as linguistics, designing combination locks, and even in …
A weak order is a way to rank n objects where ties are allowed. Weak orders have applications in diverse areas such as linguistics, designing combination locks, and even in …
Online list coloring and DP-coloring are generalizations of list coloring that attracted considerable attention recently. Each of the paint number, $\chi_P(G)$, (the minimum number of colors needed for an online …
For given graphs $G$ and $F$, the Turán number $ex(G,F)$ is defined to be the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of $G$. Briggs and Cox introduced a …
Oftentimes in chromatic graph theory, precoloring techniques are utilized in order to obtain the desired coloring result. For example, Thomassen's proof for 5-choosability of planar graphs actually shows that two adjacent …
Given a graph class $\mathcal{H}$, the task of the $\mathcal{H}$-Square Root problem is to decide whether an input graph G has a square root H that belongs to $\mathcal{H}$. We …
We present a new technique for designing fixed-parameter algorithms for graph cut problems in undirected graphs, which we call flow augmentation. Our technique is applicable to problems that can be …
Given a graph G and an integer k, the Interval Vertex Deletion (IVD) problem asks whether there exists a vertex subset S of size at most k, such that G-S is an interval graph. …
I will introduce Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of matroids and survey combinatorial and geometric theories built around them. The focus will be on the conjecture of Gedeon, Proudfoot, and Young that all …
Integer Linear Programming (ILP) is among the most successful and general paradigms for solving computationally intractable optimization problems in computer science. ILP is NP-complete, and until recently we have lacked a systematic study …
Graph compression or sparsification is a basic information-theoretic and computational question. A major open problem in this research area is whether $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate cut-preserving vertex sparsifiers with size close to the number …