## Dong Yeap Kang presented his work on random perturbed graphs at the discrete math seminar

On February 18, 2020, Dong Yeap Kang from KAIST & IBS Discrete Mathematics Group gave a talk on random perturbed graphs. The title of his talk is “Fragile minor-monotone parameters under random edge perturbation“. Dong Yeap will receive the Ph.D. degree at the end of this month from KAIST and will move to University of Birmingham, UK as a postdoc.

## The registration for the conference “Seymour is Seventy” (June 15-19) is now open! The deadline for early bird registration is April 12, 2020.

The registration for the conference “Seymour is Seventy” is now open.

• Deadline for early bird registration : April 12, 2020.
• Registration fees : 250 euros (includes coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet)
• For accompanying persons, it is possible to register only for the banquet for 70 euros
• To register, follow the link from the website https://dimag.ibs.re.kr/seymour70/

The website also has a list of suggested hotels in Lyon.

## Seymour is Seventy

A conference honouring the seventieth birthday of Paul Seymour
At ENS de Lyon, France
From June 15th to June 19th, 2020.

## Invited speakers

Noga Alon, Princeton University / Tel Aviv University
Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University
Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Gérard Cornuéjols, Carnegie Mellon University
Matt DeVos, Simon Fraser University
Guoli Ding, Louisiana State University
Jacob Fox, Stanford University
Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo
András Gyárfás, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Alexandr V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chun-Hung Liu, Texas A&M University
Sergey Norin, McGill University
Sang-il Oum, IBS Discrete Mathematics Group / KAIST
Bruce Reed, McGill University
Alexander Schrijver, University of Amsterdam / CWI Amsterdam
Alex Scott, University of Oxford
Sophie Spirkl, Princeton University
Benny Sudakov, ETH Zurich
Stéphan Thomassé, ENS de Lyon
Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
Kristina Vušković, University of Leeds
Paul Wollan, University of Rome “La Sapienza”

## Dillon Mayhew gave a talk on analogues of Courcelle’s theorem, in particular to hypergraphs and matroids at the discrete math seminar

On January 28, 2020, Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand gave a talk on problems and results motivated by Courcelle’s theorem, with an emphasis on hypergraphs and matroids. The title of his talk is “Courcelle’s Theorem for hypergraphs“.

## 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“.