## July 2022

### Sepehr Hajebi, Holes, hubs and bounded treewidth

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A hole in a graph $G$ is an induced cycle of length at least four, and for every hole $H$ in $G$, a vertex $h\in G\setminus H$ is called a $t$-hub for $H$ if $h$ has at least $t$ neighbor in $H$. Sintiari and Trotignon were the first to construct graphs with arbitrarily large treewidth

### Noam Lifshitz, Product free sets in the alternating group

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A subset of a group is said to be product free if it does not contain the product of two elements in it. We consider how large can a product free subset of $A_n$ be? In the talk we will completely solve the problem by determining the largest product free subset of $A_n$. Our proof

## August 2022

### Lars Jaffke, Taming graphs with no large creatures and skinny ladders

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We confirm a conjecture of Gartland and Lokshtanov : if for a hereditary graph class $\mathcal{G}$ there exists a constant $k$ such that no member of $\mathcal{G}$ contains a $k$-creature as an induced subgraph or a $k$-skinny-ladder as an induced minor, then there exists a polynomial $p$ such that every $G \in \mathcal{G}$ contains at

### Akash Kumar, Random walks and Forbidden Minors

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Random walks and spectral methods have had a strong influence on modern graph algorithms as evidenced by the extensive literature on the subject. In this talk, I will present how random walks helped make progress on algorithmic problems on planar graphs. In particular, I show how random walk based (i.e., spectral) approaches led to progress

### Brett Leroux, Expansion of random 0/1 polytopes

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A conjecture of Milena Mihail and Umesh Vazirani states that the edge expansion of the graph of every $0/1$ polytope is at least one. Any lower bound on the edge expansion gives an upper bound for the mixing time of a random walk on the graph of the polytope. Such random walks are important because they can be used

### Raphael Steiner, Congruence-constrained subdivisions in digraphs

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I will present the short proof from that for every digraph F and every assignment of pairs of integers $(r_e,q_e)_{e\in A(F)}$ to its arcs, there exists an integer $N$ such that every digraph D with dichromatic number at least $N$ contains a subdivision of $F$ in which $e$ is subdivided into a directed path of

## September 2022

### Dömötör Pálvölgyi, C-P3O: Orientation of convex sets and other good covers

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We introduce a novel definition of orientation on the triples of a family of pairwise intersecting planar convex sets and study its properties. In particular, we compare it to other systems of orientations on triples that satisfy a natural interiority condition. Such systems, P3O (partial 3-order), are a natural generalization of posets, and include the

### Mehtaab Sawhney, Anticoncentration in Ramsey graphs and a proof of the Erdős-McKay conjecture

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An $n$-vertex graph is called $C$-Ramsey if it has no clique or independent set of size $C\log_2 n$ (i.e., if it has near-optimal Ramsey behavior). We study edge-statistics in Ramsey graphs, in particular obtaining very precise control of the distribution of the number of edges in a random vertex subset of a $C$-Ramsey graph. One

### Santiago Guzmán-Pro, Local expressions of graphs classes

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A common technique to characterize hereditary graph classes is to exhibit their minimal obstructions. Sometimes, the set of minimal obstructions might be infinite, or too complicated to describe. For instance, for any $k\ge 3$, the set of minimal obstructions of the class of $k$-colourable graphs is yet unknown. Nonetheless, the Roy-Gallai-Hasse-Vitaver Theorem asserts that a graph $G$

## October 2022

### Konstantin Tikhomirov, A remark on the Ramsey number of the hypercube

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A well-known conjecture of Burr and Erdős asserts that the Ramsey number $r(Q_n)$ of the hypercube $Q_n$ on $2^n$ vertices is of the order $O(2^n)$. In this paper, we show that $r(Q_n)=O(2^{2n−cn})$ for a universal constant $c>0$, improving upon the previous best-known bound $r(Q_n)=O(2^{2n})$, due to Conlon, Fox, and Sudakov.

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