Combinatorics Seminar Programme

Autumn Term 2011 - Lecture Room B

If you have any queries, please contact Nikolaos Fountoulakis.

29th September 2011, 4pm Philipp Sprüssel (University of Oxford) The fundamental group of an infinite graph with ends (CANCELLED!)
6th October 2011, 4pm Allan Lo (University of Birmingham) F-factors in hypergraphs via absorption
13th October 2011, 4pm David Ellis (Queen Mary, University of London) Triangle-intersecting families of graphs
20th October 2011, 4pm Pure Mathematics Colloquium by John Conway (Princeton)
27th October 2011, 4pm Bjarne Toft (University of Southern Denmark) The board game Hex – history, results, problems
3rd November 2011, 4pm Danny Hefetz (University of Birmingham) Hitting time results for Maker-Breaker games
10th November 2011, 4pm Bela Csaba (University of Birmingham) An Ore-type packing problem
17th November 2011, 4pm Lutz Warnke (University of Oxford) Explosive percolation is continuous
23rd November 2011, 4pm Pure Mathematics Colloquium by Simon Blackburn (Royal Holloway, University of London) What is the probability that a pair of elements in a group are conjugate?
1st December 2011, 4pm Colin Cooper (King's College, University of London) Component structure of the vacant set induced by a random walk on a random graph
8th December 2011, 4pm Wojciech Samotij (Trinity College, University of Cambridge) Independent sets in hypergraphs
Previous seminars: Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011