Research seminar in combinatorics

Tel Aviv University
Fall semester 2025/26

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Basic information

Time: Sundays, 10–11
Place: Schreiber 309
Course number: 0366.4510
Organisers: Michael Krivelevich and Asaf Shapira

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Schedule

October 26 : Raphael Yuster (University of Haifa) – Inducibility in $H$-free graphs and inducibility of Turán graphs
November 2 : Benny Sudakov (ETH) – The Helly theorem for Hamming balls and related problems
November 9 : Alan Lew (Technion) – Sums of Laplacian eigenvalues and sums of degrees
November 16 : Lior Gishboliner (University of Toronto) – VC-dimension for hypergraphs: improved bounds
November 23 : Shlomo Tauber (Tel Aviv University) – A Fast Coloring Oracle for Average Case Hypergraphs
November 30 : Shakhar Smorodinsky (Ben-Gurion University) – Extended VC-dimension and Radon and Tverberg-type Theorems for Unions of Convex Sets
December 7 : Nathan Keller (Bar-Ilan University) – Intersection theorems and improved covering results for the symmetric group, via hypercontractivity
December 14 : Sergey Avvakumov (Tel Aviv University) – Hardness of 4-coloring $G$-colorable graphs
January 11 : Lyuben Lichev (Technical University of Vienna) – TBA
January 18 : Noga Alon (Princeton University and Tel Aviv University) – TBA
January 25 : Sahar Diskin (ETH) – TBA

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