## Ben Lund gave a talk on the problem on Furstenberg sets over field fields related to the Kakeya conjecture at the discrete math seminar

On January 15, 2020, Ben Lund from Princeton University gave a talk about a generalization of the Kakeya conjecture posed by Ellenberg, Oberlin, and Tao. The title of his talk was “Furstenberg sets over finite fields“. He is visiting the IBS discrete mathematics group until January 21, Tuesday.

## Sanjeeb Dash gave a talk on the integer programming approach to the interpretable machine learning at the discrete math seminar

On January 14, 2020, Sanjeeb Dash from IBM T. J. Watson Research presented a talk on the integer programming formulation for the problem arising from the interpretable machine learning. The title of his talk was “Boolean decision rules via column generation“. He is visiting IBS Discrete Mathematics Group until the end of this week.

## Welcome Sounggun Wee (위성군), a new graduate student in the IBS discrete mathematics group

The IBS discrete mathematics group welcomes Sounggun Wee (위성군), a new graduate student at the IBS discrete mathematics group since January 2020. He is currently a graduate student at the department of mathematical sciences, KAIST.

## Attila Joó gave a talk on the partition of a set into bases of finitary matroids and cofinitary matroids at the discrete math seminar

On December 19, 2019, Attila Joó from University of Hamburg presented a talk on the partitioning of the ground set into bases of finitary and cofinitary matroids at the discrete math seminar. The title of his talk was “Base partition for finitary-cofinitary matroid families”.

## Hong Liu gave a talk on the conjecture of Mader about the topological minors in C4-free graphs at the discrete math seminar

On December 12, 2019, Hong Liu from University of Warwick gave a talk on the resolution of the conjecture of Mader on the existence of a complete topological minor under the condition of average degree for C4-free graphs at the discrete math seminar held at KAIST. The title of his talk was “A proof of Mader’s conjecture on large clique subdivisions in $C_4$-free graphs“.

## Ruth Luo gave a talk on the induced Turán-type problems for hypergraphs at the discrete math seminar

On November 19, 2019, Ruth Luo from University of California San Diego gave a talk on the Turán-type results on r-uniform hypergraphs without a certain structure called an induced Berge-F. The title of her talk was “Induced Turán problems for hypergraphs“. She is visiting IBS discrete mathematics group until November 22.