The purpose of this seminar is for graduate students in combinatorics at UCSD
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Winter 2022 | ||
1/11/22 | Melissa Fuentes | The Extremality of 2-partite Turan Graphs with Respect to the Number of Colorings. |
1/18/22 | Nicholas Sieger | On the open problem "Count the ways to add a K-4". |
1/25/22 | Nadia Lafrenière | The spectrum of the random-to-below Markov chain. |
2/1/22 | Sam Spiro | The Rational Exponent Conjecture. |
2/8/22 | Youngho Yoo | Approximating TSP walks in subcubic graphs. |
2/15/22 | Sam Mattheus | Polar spaces in extremal combinatorics. |
2/22/22 | Sidhanth Mohanty | Testing thresholds for high-dimensional sparse random geometric graphs. |
3/1/22 | Alp Muyesser | Rainbow spanning structures. |
3/8/22 | Calum MacRury | Adaptive Strategies for Sparse Graphs in the Semi-random Graph Process. |
Fall 2021 | ||
10/5/21 | Jason O'Neill | Towards supersaturation for oddtown and eventown. |
10/12/21 | Sam Spiro | Slow Fibonacci Walks. |
10/19/21 | Grace McCourt | On sizes of 1-cross intersecting set pair systems. |
11/2/21 | Kat Perry | Rainbow Spanning Trees in Edge-Colored Complete Graphs. |
11/9/21 | Gabriel Elvin | Fourier-analytic Methods. |
11/16/21 | Adam Wagner | Constructions in combinatorics via neural networks. |
11/23/21 | N/A | |
11/30/21 | Jane Tan | Generalisations of a light switch problem. | I'm not good at HTML |
Spring 2021 | ||
3/30/21 | Connor Mattes | Flag Algebras and an application: C_5 is almost a fractalizer. |
4/6/21 | Gabriel Elvin | Avoiding Monochromatic Structure. |
4/13/21 | N/A | |
4/20/21 | Benjamin Gunby | Upper Tails of Subgraph Counts in Sparse Regular Graphs. |
4/27/21 | Kyle Murphy | Maximizing five cycles in K_{r+1}-free graphs. |
5/4/21 | Sean English | Lower Bounds on Generalized Ramsey Numbers via Color Energy. |
5/11/21 | Adam Volk | Graph Saturation and Counting Stars. |
5/18/21 | Jonathan Tidor | The Joints Problem. |
5/25/21 | Jason O'Neill | Intersection Saturated set systems. | I'm not good at HTML |
Winter 2021: Hypergraph Containers | ||
1/5/21 | Sam Spiro | An Introduction to Hypergraph Containers. |
1/12/21 | Jason O'Neill | A Random Variant of Sperner's Theorem. |
1/19/21 | Ruth Luo | The Number of Maximal Triangle-free Graphs. |
1/26/21 | Nicholas Sieger | The Number of Maximal Sum-Free Sets. |
2/2/21 | Jiaxi Nie | Turan's Theorem in Random Graphs. |
2/9/21 | Sam Spiro | Cycle-Free Subgraphs of Random Hypergraphs. |
2/16/21 | Everyone | Organizational Meeting. |
2/23/21 | Everyone | Open Problem Session I. |
3/2/21 | Everyone | Open Problem Session II. | I'm not good at HTML |
Fall 2020 | ||
9/29/20 | Gwen McKinley | Counting integer partitions with the method of maximum entropy. |
10/6/20 | Sam Spiro | Relative Turan Numbers of Hypergraphs. |
10/13/20 | N/A | |
10/20/20 | Nicholas Sieger | A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Higher Order Fourier Analysis |
10/27/20 | Chieu-Minh Tran | Point-box incidences and logarithmic density of semilinear graphs |
11/3/20 | Sam Spiro | Card Guessing with Partial Feedback |
11/10/20 | Kate Lorenzen | Cospectral constructions for several graph matrices using cousin vertices |
11/17/20 | Xiaoyu He | Two Universality Problems |
11/24/20 | N/A | |
12/01/20 | Jason O'Neill | An introduction to extremal problems on convex geometric hypergraphs |
12/08/20 | Emily Zhu | On the Erdos-Hajnal Hypergraph Ramsey Problem |
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Winter 2020: Spectral Graph Theory | ||
1/10/20 | Sam Spiro | Introduction to Spectral Graph Theory and the Adjacency Matrix. |
1/17/20 | Jason O'Neill | The Laplacian Matrix. |
1/24/20 | San Spiro | The Normalized Laplacian Matrix. |
2/7/20 | Andres Rodriguez | Towards a Theoretical Foundation for Laplacian-Based Manifold Methods. |
2/14/20 | Daniël Kroes | Strongly Regular Graphs. |
2/21/20 | Jiaxi Nie | (n,d,lambda)-graphs and Ramsey Numbers. |
2/28/20 | Nicholas Sieger | Interlacing Families and Ramanujan Graphs I. |
3/6/20 | Nicholas Sieger | Interlacing Families and Ramanujan Graphs II. |
3/13/20 | Max Hopkins | High Dimensional Expanders. |
I'm not good at HTML | Fall 2019: Linear Algebra Methods | |
10/4/19 | Daniël Kroes | Oddtown, Eventown, and Frankl-Wilson. |
10/11/19 | Emily Zhu | The Graham-Pollak Theorem. |
10/18/19 | Jason O'Neill | Multilinear Polynomials. |
10/25/19 | Sam Spiro | The Tensor Product Method and Exterior Algebras. |
11/1/19 | Jacob Naranjo | Inclusion Matrices for Extremal Problems. |
11/15/19 | Jason O'Neill | q-analogs for the Ray-Cahudhuri-Wilson Theorem. |
11/22/19 | Jiaxi Nie | Slice Rank and the Capset Problem. |
12/6/19 | Nicholas Sieger | Interlacing and the Sensitivity Conjecture. |
I'm not good at HTML | 2018-2019 Schedule | |
6/17/19 | Everyone | Brainstorming Session. |
5/24/19 | Daniël Kroes | Sums of Permutations. |
4/26/19 | Jason O'Neill | Vinogradov's Three Prime Theorem. |
4/12/19 | Sam Spiro | Roth's Theorem. |
3/15/19 | Renee Mirka | The Rank Aggregation Problem. |
3/1/19 | Sam Spiro | The Rodl Nibble. |
2/15/19 | Daniël Kroes | Matroids and Their Applications. |
2/1/19 | Jason O'Neill | The Kruskal-Katona Theorem. |
1/19/19 | Mozhgan Mirzaei | The History of Extremal Problems for Cycles in Graphs. |
11/30/18 | Andres Rodriguez | Hopf Monoids in Set Species. |
11/16/18 | Nick Sieger | The Differential Equations Method and Ramsey Lower Bounds. |
11/2/18 | Thomas Grubb | "Algebraic Combinatorial Geometry" by Terrance Tao. |
10/19/18 | Jason O'Neill | Simple Random Walks in Dimensions 2 and 3. |
10/5/18 | Sam Spiro | "On Random Graphs" by Paul Erdos and Alfred Renyi. |