Literature Seminar in Combinatorics Fall 2020

2020-08-25 – Xizhi Liu (UIC) – Sparse halves in K_4-free graphs
2020-09-01 – Ramon Alvarez (UIUC) – Three extremal results for d-regular graphs
2020-09-08 – Noga Alon (Princeton University) – Open problem session
2020-09-15 – Souktik Roy (UIUC) – Singularity of random symmetric Matrices by Asaf Ferber
2020-09-22 – Rachel Kirsch (Iowa State) – Clique Counting in Bounded Degree Graphs
2020-09-29 – Felix Joos (Universität Heidelberg) – Decomposition of Hypergraphs
2020-10-06 – Letica Mattos (IMPA) – Singularity of random symmetric matrices
2020-10-13 – (12:30pm) Discussion of Lower bounds for multicolor Ramsey numbers by Conlon and Ferber
2020-10-13 – (4pm) Nina Kamcev (Monash University) – Counting regular hypergraphs
2020-10-20 – Cosmin Pohoata (Yale) – The Zarankiewicz problem for graphs with bounded VC-dimension
2020-10-27 – Natasha Morrison – The Typical Structure of Sets with Small Sumset
2020-11-03 – Election Day: State Holiday
2020-11-10 – Pat Devlin (Yale) – Central limit theorem in majority dynamics
2020-11-17 – Grace McCourt (UIUC) – Generalizations and Strengthenings of Ryser’s conjecture
2020-11-24 – Thanksgiving break
2020-12-01 – Marius Tiba (University of Cambridge) – Sharp stability of Brunn-Minkowski for homothetic regions
2020-12-08 – Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton) – My favourite problems in graph theory, as of 11/2020
2020-12-15 – Anita Liebenau (UNSW) -Two approximate versions of Jackson’s conjecture