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 2006 January 18 (T) (13:45) Aart Blokhuis An Introduction to symbolic dynamics and coding February 8 (A) (13:45) Markus Heydenreich The lace expansion - combinatorial arguments in statistical physics February 15 (A) (13:45) Jan Draisma A tropical approach to secant varieties February 22 (M) (12:45) Maciej Modelski One-side MinFlip Problem is NP-Complete (A) (13:45) Rene Sitters The Euclidean group traveling salesman problem (T) (14:50) Piet Lemmens An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding (Chapter 1) March 15 (G) (13:45) Geert Dijkhuis Pakkende wormwielen Demo available from https://www.win.tue.nl/~gdijkhui/. March 22 (A) (13:45) Erik Postma Lie algebras, extremal elements and diagrams March 29 (A) (13:45) Andries Brouwer (A) (14:50) Bart Preneel Cryptographic Hash Functions: Past, Present and Future April 12 CT seminar (13:45) Hans Cuypers: MathAdore en IDA (14:05) Mark Spanbroek: MathDox player (14:30) Rikko Verrijzer: WExEd editor April 19 (A) (13:45) Aart Blokhuis: On linear codes whose weights and length have a common divisor April 26 (M) (12:45) Bart Frenk: Brauer algebras of simply laced type (M) (13:45) Jan Willem Knopper: Automatic Proofs of Graph Nonisomorphism May 3 (A) (13:45) Tom De Medts: The isomorphism problem for Moufang sets of type 1D4, part I (A) (14:50) Tom De Medts: The isomorphism problem for Moufang sets of type 1D4, part II May 17 (A)(13:45) Nick Gill: Transitive projective planes and components, Part I (A)(14:50) Nick Gill: Transitive projective planes and components, Part II June 7 (A) (13:45) Tyrell McAllister: Polyhedral Techniques in Computational Representation Theory June 14 (A) (13:45) Matthias Buergin: On linear subspaces of the Hilbert nullcone and polarization in invariant theory (A) (14:50) Jan Draisma: On the Casas-Alvero conjecture June 28 (A) (13:45) Scott Murray: Computation in linear algebraic groups September 13 (A) (13:45) Jan Draisma: The inverse problem of tensorial invariant theory September 27 (A) (14:30) Willem Haemers: Cospectral graphs and the generalized adjacency matrix. (A) (15:35) Andries Brouwer: The vertex connectivity of distance-regular graphs October 4 (A) (14:30) Tyrrell McAllister: Ehrhart polynomials of rational polygons October 5 (A) (15:35) Igor Razgon: Exact computation of the feedback vertex set October 11 (A) (14:30) Reza Rezaeian Farashahi: Extractors for Binary Elliptic Curves October 18 (A) (15:35) Tim Mussche: The chromatic number of Kneser graphs and some q-analogues October 25 (A) (14:30) Jasper Stokman: Particles on the circle and integrability, Part I (A) (15:35) Jasper Stokman: Particles on the circle and integrability, Part II November 1 No seminar because of the DIAMANT Minicourse Algebraic Aspects of Quantum Computing. November 8 (A) (15:35) Pawel Wocjan: The Jones polynomial: Quantum Algorithms and Applications in Quantum Complexity Theory November 15 (A) (13:30) Ellen Jochemsz: Finding Small Roots & Attacking RSA Variants (A) (14:30) David Wales: The BMW Algebras of Type Dn (A) (15:35) Frank Vallentin: New Upper Bounds for Kissing Numbers from Semidefinite Programming November 22 (A) (14:30) Peter van de Ven: Factorial Designs and Harmonic Analysis on Finite Abelian Groups (A) (15:35) Koen Thas: Elation Generalized Quadrangles, I: Introduction and Kantor's Conjecture November 29 (A) (15:35) Kristina Altmann: Locally SU6(C) Graphs November 30 - December 1 DIAMANT/EIDMA symposium 2006 in Vught December 6 (A) (14:30) Koen Thas: Elation Generalized Quadrangles, II: Singer Group Theory and Payne Derivation (A) (15:35) Hans Cuypers: Embeddings of Classical Graphs December 13 (A) (14:30) Jos Vermaseren: The Mathematics of Feynman Diagrams (A) (15:35) Wilberd van der Kallen: The Integer Medial Axis and the Distance between Closest Points December 20 (A) (14:30) Gabor Ivanyos: Deciding Universality of Quantum Gates (A) (15:35) Gabor Ivanyos: An Application of Generalized Reed-Muller Codes to Quantum Computing