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 2016 Wednesday, June 22nd MF 11/12, 10:00-10:45 (Master's defense) Florian Oosterhof: Stabilisation of Iterated Toric Fibre Products Finite Geometry and Combinatorics: MF11/12, 14:00-14:40 Edwin van Dam (Tilburg University): A generalization of strongly regular graphs and digraphs MF11/12, 14:50-15:30 Leo Storme (University of Ghent): Spreads, Erdos-Ko-Rado sets and Cameron-Liebler sets in finite projective and finite classical polar spaces. MF11/12, 15:30-16:00 Coffee and Tea MF11/12, 16:00-16:40 Simeon Ball (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona): Applications of the Blokhuis-Bruen-Thas hypersurface associated with an arc 16:40-18:00 Drinks in the lounge of the MetaForum (Floor 4). Wednesday, June 15th MF 13, 14:00-14:30 (Bachelor's defense, Dutch) Jasper van Doornmalen: Determinantrepresentatie van Polynomen MF 13, 15:30-16:00 (Bachelor's defense, Dutch) Timo Scholte: Bamboozle structuren en Honingraten Wednesday, June 1st MF 11/12, 14:10-14:20: Coffee/tea MF 11/12, 14:20-14:50 Wilberd van der Kallen: Answer to Mathoverflow question 209140 MF 11/12, 15:00-15:30 Jos Vermaseren: “At the limits of what is possible” MF 11/12, 15:40-16:10 Guus Bollen: Algebraic matroids and Frobenius flocks Wednesday, May 25th MF 13, 15:40-16:30 Dion Gijswijt: Bounds on cap sets through the polynomial method Thursday, May 19th MF 15, 12:00-12:45 Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley): Nearest Points on Toric Varieties MF 15, 13:30-14:15 Bernard Mourrain (Inria): Sparse decomposition from moments MF 15, 14:30-15:15 Monique Laurent (CWI and Tilburg University): Completely positive semidefinite matrices: some properties and applications Wednesday, May 11th MF 13, 15:40-16:30: Hao Chen: Selectively Balancing Unit Vectors Wednesday, April 6th MF 6.131, 15:40-16:30: Tom Verhoeff: Lehmer’s 1965 Conjecture about Hamiltonian Paths in Permutation Graphs Wednesday, March 16th MF 6.131, 15:40-16:00: Emil Horobet: Orthogonal and unitary tensor decomposition Wednesday, March 2nd MF 14, 14:40-15:30: Francesco Pavese: On maximal partial spread of finite classical polar spaces MF 14, 15:40-16:30: Andrea Svob: Transitive designs constructed from finite groups Wednesday, February 17th MF 14, 15:40-16:30: Jesper Nederlof: Sharper Upper Bounds for Unbalanced Uniquely Decodable Code Pairs Wednesday, February 3rd MF 14, 14:40-15:30: Ago Riet: Permutation codes MF 14, 15:40-16:30: Leo Storme: Galois geometries and Random network coding Wednesday, January 27th MF 4.121, 15:40-16:30: Ada Boralevi: Orthogonal and unitary tensor decomposition