Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group
기초과학연구원 극단 조합 및 확률 그룹
Felix is starting his position from August 16, 2024. Previously, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022 under the supervision of Jozsi Balogh and was a postdoc researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
This year’s summer school again consists of two parts. All information, including lecture notes, recordings will be available on the course homepage: https://www.ibs.re.kr/ecopro/summer-2024/
Week 1: July 29 — August 2
Lecturer: Boris Bukh (CMU)
Title: Algebraic methods in combinatorics
Description: The aim of this lecture series is to introduce algebraic proof techinques in extremal combinatorics. Three main topics will be covered: polynomial interpolation, slice rank and algebraic geometry constructions. Depending on pacing and audience’s wishes, towards the end, we might discuss other recent topics of interest.
Week 2: August 5 — August 9
Lecturer: Tung Nguyen (Princeton)
Title: Recent work on the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture
Abstract: A conjecture of Erdős and Hajnal asserts that every graph with a forbidden induced subgraph contains a clique or independent set of polynomial size. We will discuss recent work on this conjecture (joint with Alex Scott and Paul Seymour, and partly with Matija Bucić), which includes the loglog improvement over the general bound of Erdős and Hajnal, Rödl’s theorem and the polynomial Rödl property, and the method of iterative sparsification with application to prime graphs and graphs of bounded VC-dimension.
Bjarne Schülke is joining ECOPRO from July 1, 2024 as an IBS Young Scientist Fellow. Before coming here, Bjarne was a Harry Bateman Instructor in Mathematics at Caltech. He got his Ph.D. from Univ. Hamburg in 2021 under the supervision of Christian Reiher and Mathias Schacht.
Our YSF Dongyeap Kang received 2023 the prestigious Sangsan Prize for Young Mathematicians (상산젊은수학자상) from the Korean Mathematical Society. This prize is for those with outstanding academic achievements in mathematics who are within 5 years of receiving their Ph.D. degree.
Will be held at Grand Hyatt Jeju from October 20 to 23, 2023. For more details, please see the workshop homepage: https://www.ibs.re.kr/ecopro/development-in-combinatorics-3rd-workshop-2023/
We are hiring up to 3 senior researchers. For more details, see https://www.ibs.re.kr/ecopro/hiring/
Bingyu will be with us for two years. She is from Shandong University.
Shuaichao is from Nankai University. He will be with us for two years.
Haotian is from Shandong University. He will be with us for half a year.