Literature Seminar in Combinatorics Summer 2020

2020-05-19 – Xinyi Li (UIUC) – A Relatively Small Counterexample to Hedetniemi’s Conjecture by Zhu
2020-05-26 – Cassie Christenson (UIUC) – Two Conjectures in Ramsey-Turán Theory by Jaehoon Kim, Younjin Kim, and Hong Liu
2020-06-02 – Lina Li (UIUC) – Recent work on graph tiling problems
2020-06-09 – Emily Heath (UIUC) – The Generalized Rainbow Turan Problem for Cycles by Barnabas Janzer
2020-06-16 – Igor Araujo (UIUC) – Non-concentration of the chromatic number of a random graph by Annika Heckel
2020-06-23 – Olaf Parczyk (LSE) – The size-Ramsey number of 3-uniform tight paths
2020-07-07 – Tao Jiang (Miami University) – Linear cycles of consecutive lengths
2020-07-14 – Bob Krueger (UIUC) – Monochromatic components in edge-colored graphs with large minimum degree
2020-07-21 – Hong Liu (University of Warwick) – Forcing planar minor
2020-07-28 – Souktik Roy (UIUC)- Improved Bound for Tomaszewski’s Problem by Dvořák, van Hintum and Tiba
2020-08-04 – Diana Piguet (Czech Academy of Sciences) – Packing degenerate graphs
2020-08-11 – Yelena Yuditsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) – Typical structure of hereditary graph families.
2020-08-18 – Alex Neal Riasanovsky (Iowa State) – On the edit distance function of the random graph