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November 8, 2021July 6, 2024

Martin Milanič gave an online talk on a variation of tree-width of graphs by measuring the width of a tree-decomposition by the size of the largest stable set in a bag at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium

On November 5, 2021, Martin Milanič from the University of Primorska, Slovenia gave an online talk at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium on a variation of tree-width by measuring the width of a tree-decomposition by the size of the largest stable set in a bag and its algorithmic applications to the maximum weight stable set. The title of his talk was “Tree Decompositions with Bounded Independence Number“.

November 2, 2021July 6, 2024

Ben Lund gave a talk on the smallest size of maximal 3-wise intersecting families of sets at the Discrete Math Seminar

On November 2, 2021, Ben Lund from IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk on the smallest possible size of a maximal 3-wise intersecting family of subsets of {1,2,…,n} for large n, answering a problem of Erdős and Kleitman proposed in 1974. The title of his talk was “Maximal 3-wise intersecting families“.

October 26, 2021July 6, 2024

Donggyu Kim (김동규) gave a talk on 𝝘-graphic delta-matroids and their algorithmic applications at the Discrete Math Seminar

On October 26, 2021, Donggyu Kim (김동규) from KAIST & IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar, introducing 𝝘-graphic delta-matroids and showing their algorithmic applications. The title of his talk was “𝝘-graphic delta-matroids and their applications“.

October 26, 2021July 6, 2024

DIMAG had the online workshop “Young Researchers in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics” on October 20-22, 2021.

On October 20-22, 2021, DIMAG had an online workshop “Young Researchers in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics” organized by Tuan Tran and Casey Tompkins. There were 7 invited talks a day for three days.

Invited Speakers & Program

Oct. 20 Wednesday 4 PM (KST) – 8 PM (KST)

Andrzej Grzesik (Jagiellonian University): Degenerated generalized Turán numbers of cycles, 4:00-4:25
Jan Volec (Czech Technical University): Existence of common graphs with large chromatic number, 4:30-4:55
Balázs Patkós (Rényi Institute): Vector sum-intersection theorems, 5:00-5:25
István Tomon (ETH Zurich): Small doubling, atomic structure and ℓ-divisible set families, 5:30-5:55
Michael Anastos (Freie Universität Berlin): Longest Cycles in Sparse Random Graphs and Where to Find Them, 6:30-6:55
Adam Zsolt Wagner (Tel Aviv University): Constructions in combinatorics via neural networks, 7:00-7:25
Yelena Yuditsky (Université libre de Bruxelles): On multicolor Ramsey numbers and subset-coloring of hypergraphs, 7:30-7:55

Oct. 21 Thursday 4 PM (KST) – 8 PM (KST)

Kevin Hendrey (IBS Discrete Mathematics Group): Extremal functions for sparse minors, 4:00-4:25
Simona Boyadzhiyska (Freie Universität Berlin): Ramsey simplicity of random graphs, 4:30-4:55
Shagnik Das (National Taiwan University): Schur’s Theorem in randomly perturbed sets, 5:00-5:25
Tony Huynh (Monash University): Subgraph densities in minor-closed classes (and beyond), 5:30-5:55
Ander Lamaison (Masaryk University): Hypergraphs with minimum uniform Turán density, 6:30-6:55
Ben Lund (IBS Discrete Mathematics Group): Maximal 3-wise intersecting families, 7:00-7:25
Liana Yepremyan (London School of Economics): Enumerating independent sets in Abelian Cayley graphs, 7:30-7:55

Oct. 22 Friday 4 PM (KST) – 8 PM (KST)

Andrey Kupavskii (CNRS): Binary scalar products, 4:00-4:25
Dániel Gerbner (Rényi Institute): Exact results for generalized Turán problems, 4:30-4:55
Oliver Janzer (University of Cambridge): Tiling with monochromatic bipartite graphs of bounded maximum degree, 5:00-5:25
Nika Salia (Rényi Institute): Pósa-type results for Berge Hypergraphs, 5:30-5:55
Debsoumya Chakraborti (IBS Discrete Mathematics Group): Mixing time and expanders, 6:30-6:55
Wei-Tian Li (National Chung Hsing University): Ramsey Properties for V-shaped Posets in the Boolean Lattices, 7:00-7:25
Dimitry Zakharov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology): Zero subsums in vector spaces over finite fields, 7:30-7:55

October 13, 2021July 6, 2024

Joonkyung Lee (이준경) gave a talk about the majority dynamics on sparse random graphs at the Discrete Math Seminar

On October 12, 2021, Joonkyung Lee (이준경) from the Hanyang University gave a talk about the majority dynamics on sparse random graphs. The title of his talk was “Majority dynamics on sparse random graphs“.

October 9, 2021July 6, 2024

Paul Seymour gave an online talk on the polynomial 𝜒-boundedness of graph classes at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium

On October 8, 2021, Paul Seymour from Princeton University gave an online talk at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium on the polynomial 𝜒-boundedness of graph classes. The title of his talk was “Polynomial bounds for chromatic number“.

October 6, 2021July 6, 2024

Eunjin Oh (오은진) gave a talk on a parameterized complexity of the feedback vertex set problem on unit disk graphs at the Discrete Math Seminar

On October 5, 2021, Eunjin Oh (오은진) from POSTECH gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the parameterized complexity of the feedback vertex set problem on unit disk graphs at the Discrete Math Seminar. The title of her talk was “Feedback Vertex Set on Geometric Intersection Graphs“.

October 1, 2021July 6, 2024

Péter Pál Pach gave an online talk on the solution of the Alon-Jaeger-Tarsi conjecture at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium

On September 30, 2021, Péter Pál Pach from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics gave an online talk at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium on the solution of the Alon-Jaeger-Tarsi conjecture for all finite fields of size more than 61 but not equal to 79. The title of his talk was “The Alon-Jaeger-Tarsi conjecture via group ring identities“.

September 29, 2021July 6, 2024

Kevin Hendrey gave a talk on the edge density of graphs having no H-minor for a sparse graph H at the Discrete Math Seminar

On September 28, 2021, Kevin Hendrey from the IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the supremum of the edge density of graphs not having H-minors, when H is in a graph class admitting strongly sublinear separators. The title of his talk was “Extremal functions for sparse minors“.

September 10, 2021July 6, 2024

The IBS Discrete Mathematics Group (DIMAG) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Due: December 5, 2021)

The IBS Discrete Mathematics Group (DIMAG) in Daejeon, Korea invites applications for two postdoctoral research fellowship positions.

URL: https://dimag.ibs.re.kr/hiring/

DIMAG is a research group that was established in December 1, 2018 at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), led by Prof. Sang-il Oum. DIMAG is located at the headquarters of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Daejeon, South Korea, a city of 1.5 million people.

The position is available for individuals who are within the first five years after obtaining their Ph.D. at the date of appointment or expecting to obtain a Ph.D. within three months from the date of appointment. Successful candidates for postdoctoral research fellowship positions will be new or recent Ph.D.’s with outstanding research potential in all fields of discrete mathematics with emphasis on structural graph theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial optimization, matroid theory, or fixed-parameter tractable algorithms.

This appointment is for two years, and the starting salary is no less than KRW 57,000,000. The appointment is one time renewable up to 3 years in total contingent upon the outstanding performance of the researcher. The expected appointment date is September 1, 2022. This is a purely research position and will have no teaching duties.

A complete application packet should include:

AMS standard cover sheet (preferred) or cover letter (PDF format)
Curriculum vitae including a publication list (PDF format)
Research statement (PDF format)
Consent to Collection and Use of Personal Information (PDF file)
At least 3 recommendation letters

For full consideration, applicants should email items 1, 2, 3, and 4 and arrange their recommendation letters emailed to dimag@ibs.re.kr by December 5, 2021, Sunday.

Recommendations letters forwarded by an applicant will not be considered.

DIMAG encourages applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds.

Poster Download

In the unlikely event of closing the group, the employment contract will be terminated accordingly. For Korean citizens who have not yet completed their military duty: IBS는 병역특례지정기관입니다. IBS is a designated institute for alternative military service.