Eindhoven Discrete Math Seminar

Time, Place and Intent Planned Lectures Tentative Lectures Lectures given in 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001

Lectures given in 2009 January 14 (A) (14:30) Jan Draisma: Around Minkowski's 3d - 1 theorem (A) (15:35) Remco Duits: Adaptive left invariant diffusions on Lie groups and their applications to image analysis January 21 (A) (14:30) Çiçek Güven: Potentially maximum Erdös-Ko-Rado sets in the various thin geometries arising from a spherical diagram (A) (15:35) Maxim Hendriks: An algebraic curve with automorphism group PSL(2,13) January 28 (T) (14:30) Andries Brouwer: Chapters 1 and 2 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" (A) (15:35) Jarek Byrka: Dependent rounding and fault tolerant facility location February 4 (T) (14:30) Jan Draisma: Chapter 3 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" (A) (15:35) Bertrand Meyer: Generalised Hermite constants and designs February 11 (T) (14:30) Aart Blokhuis: Chapters 4 and 5 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" (T) (15:35) Exercises from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" February 18 No seminar because of the DIAMANT/EIDMA minicourse on lambda calculus and term rewriting systems February 25 (T) (15:35) Çiçek Güven: Chapter 11 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" March 4 (T) (15:35) Andries Brouwer: Poincaré series of invariant rings of SL2(C) March 18 (A) (14:30) Leo Storme: Geometrical problems linked to linear codes arising from incidence matrices (T) (15:35) Maxim Hendriks: Chapter 6 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" March 25 (A) (14:30) Michel Lavrauw: The linearity conjecture for blocking sets in PG(n,q3), part I: statement of the problem and some lemmas (A) (15:35) Geertrui van de Voorde: The linearity conjecture for blocking sets in PG(n,q3), part II: a proof for q prime April 1 (A) (15:35) John van Bon: Multiplicity-free permutation representations April 8 (T) (15:35) Dan Roozemond: Chapter 12 and 13 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" Thursday April 16 (A) (14:00) Peter Cameron: Synchronization (abstract) April 22 (T) (14:30) Dan Roozemond: Chapter 13 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" (T) (15:35) Bart Frenk: Chapter 14 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" April 29 (T) (15:35) Shoumin Liu: Chapter 18 and 19 from the book "Representation Theory: A First Course" May 6 (A) (13:00) Harmen Bouma: Three scheduling problems that have remained open for many years can be solved polynomially (abstract) (A) (14:30) Farzaneh Ramezani: Cospectral mates for some graphs of Johnson Scheme. (A) (15:35) Willem Haemers: Divisible Design Graphs. May 13 (G) (14:30) Andries Brouwer: Thick Kneser graphs have eigenvalues that are powers of q (G) (15:35) Filip Cools: Tropical geometry and dissimilarity maps of trees May 20 (G) (15:35) Pieter Naaijkens: Topological quantum computers and modular categories May 27 No seminar because of the DIAMANT/EIDMA Symposium in honor of Arjeh Cohen. June 3 (G) (14:30) Andries Brouwer, Peter Csorba: The number of dominating sets of a finite graph is odd June 10 (G) (15:35) Dongming Wang: Triangular Decomposition for Geometric Reasoning. June 17 (A) (15:35) Murat Firat: A MIP-based combinatorial approach for scheduling tasks with skill requirements June 24 (B) (14:30) Thijs Timmerman: Mutually unbiased bases, (G) (15:35) Caroline Uhler: Semidefinite matrix completion and Gaussian graphical models. July 1 (A) (15:35) Max Horn: The geometry of involutions of algebraic groups and of Kac-Moody groups. Wednesday, July 8 (B) (14:00) Chiky Cheung: Coxeter groups and graphs Thursday, July 9 (G) (10:00) Dillon Mayhew: The excluded minors for matroids that are binary or ternary Monday October 12 (G) 14.00-15.00 - Bettina Eick: Schur multiplicators of finite groups. Wednesday October 28 (A) 14:30-15:20 Matthias Mnich: Ordinal Embedding Relaxations Parameterized Above Tight Lower Bound. Wednesday November 4 (A) 14:30-15:20 Mirjam Dür: On the cones of completely positive and doubly nonnegative matrices and their use in optimization. Wednesday November 18 (G) 15:30-16:20 Geertrui van de Voorde: Linear codes from projective spaces Thursday November 26 and Friday November 27 DIAMANT/EIDMA Symposium in Lunteren. Wednesday December 2 (A) 15:30-16:20 Danny Hermelin (MPI Saarbruecken): Well-Quasi-Orders in Subclasses of Bounded Treewidth Graphs. Wednesday December 9 (G) 14:30-15:20 Relinde Jurrius: Linear codes, arrangements, lattices, matroids and their associated polynomials.