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Connections Workshop: Extremal Combinatorics February 06, 2025 - February 07, 2025
Registration Deadline: February 07, 2025 about 1 month ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: November 06, 2024 4 months ago
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Atrium, Online/Virtual, Front Courtyard, 2nd Floor Deck
Organizers Julia Böttcher (London School of Economics and Political Science), Anita Liebenau (UNSW Sydney), LEAD Maya Stein (Universidad de Chile)
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This workshop will bring together promising early-career researchers in extremal combinatorics so that they can meet with, forge connections with, and be inspired by the leading figures in the area. The workshop will include lectures, time for collaborative research, and an informal panel discussion session on career issues. This workshop is open to all mathematicians. Download a workshop flyer (PDF) to share with your colleagues, department, or networks
Keywords and Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)
Tags/Keywords
  • extremal combinatorics

  • extremal set theory

  • extremal graph theory

  • hypergraphs

  • designs

  • Ramsey theory

  • positional games

  • random graphs

  • thresholds

  • probabilistic combinatorics

  • combinatorial probability

  • statistical physics

  • percolation

  • structural graph theory

  • graph minors

  • chromatic number

  • arithmetic combinatorics

  • arithmetic progressions

  • discrete geometry

  • combinatorial geometry

  • incidence theorems

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Secondary Mathematics Subject Classification No Secondary AMS MSC
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To apply for funding, you must register by the funding application deadline displayed above.

All are welcome to apply for funding, including students and recent PhDs. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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Feb 06, 2025
Thursday
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
  Welcome
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM
  Dedekind's problem and beyond
Jinyoung Park (New York University)
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
  Morning Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  The semi-inducibility problem
Bertille Granet (Universität Heidelberg)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Sqorners
Sarah Peluse (Stanford University)
12:30 PM - 02:15 PM
  Lunch
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
  Spanning trees in pseudorandom graphs via sorting networks
Natasha Morrison (University of Victoria)
03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:45 PM - 04:15 PM
  Monotone arrays and a multidimensional Ramsey Theorem
Gal Kronenberg (University of Oxford)
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  Panel Discussion: Career Advice Q&A
Zhanar Berikkyzy (Fairfield University), Catherine Greenhill (UNSW Sydney), Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo), Annika Heckel (Uppsala University), Maya Sankar (Stanford University), Denae Ventura Arredondo (UC Davis)
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
  Invitation Only Dinner
Feb 07, 2025
Friday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Decomposing regular graphs into stars
Catherine Greenhill (UNSW Sydney)
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
  Group Photo
10:10 AM - 10:45 AM
  Morning Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
  Graph profiles and their tropicalizations
Annie Raymond (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
  Turán problems in directed and mixed graphs
Nitya Mani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:15 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Extremal number of cliques of given orders in graphs with a forbidden clique minor
Fan Wei (Duke University)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Afternoon Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  De-clawing graph theory
Stephanie van Willigenburg (University of British Columbia)