Speaker Robert Ellis IIT Applied Math http://math.iit.edu/~rellis/ Description The point of group testing is to reduce the cost of finding defective items in a population by testing pools if items...
Description The crossing number of a graph $G$, $\crs(G)$ is the minimum number of intersections among edges over all possible drawings on a plane. The pairwise crossing number $\pcr(G)$ is the...
Properly colored copies and rainbow copies of large graphs with small maximum degree Description Counting Independent sets up to tree threshold : We consider the problem of counting a given weighted...
A Polynomial Approximation to the Matrix Permanent via Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Description Algorithms for the Min-Cut problem : The project will discuss the Min-Cut problem, and introduce some...
Subgraphs of random graphs with specified degrees Description Improved Bounds on Coloring of Graphs : This paper by Sokol Ndreca, Aldo Procacci, Benedetto Scoppola (2011) has several improvements on...
Propagation of Information in a Network Description Cardinality of 2 and Higher Distance Sets: This presentation focuses on an improved upper bound on the cardinality of a 2-distance set proved by...
Description The area of non-adaptive group testing is a well-sought topic in recent years. The general problem is - we have a large set of elements, N which contains some 'special items'. The (sub)set...
On Counting Weighted Graph Homomorphisms Description Coloring Nonuniform Hypergraphs: A New Algorithmic Approach to the General Lovasz Local Lemma : The Lovasz Local Lemma is a useful tool for making...
Description Attacker defender games are (two-player) games played on graphs. The player strategies are subsets of the edges or vertices of the graph (for example the defender sends message(s) through...
Description In Coding Theory, the maximum size of binary codes of length n with minimum distance d is a well studied problem. In this talk, we study binary codes when there is a restriction on maximum...
