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Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Our seminar usually takes place on Tuesdays from 4pm to 5pm. If you would like to receive weekly announcements, please email stefan.glock@uni-passau.de. Some of the talks take place online on Zoom. The link will be distributed with the weekly announcements.

Schedule Winter Semester 2025/26

Time and Place Speaker Title

21 October
4pm
Online

Matías Pavez-Signé
University of Chile

Ramsey numbers of trees

28 October
4pm
Online

Natasha Morrison
University of Victoria

Spanning trees in pseudorandom graphs via sorting networks

3 November
4pm
(IM) SR 034

Micha Christoph
ETH Zürich

Tbc

4 November
4pm
(IM) SR 033

Raphael Steiner
ETH Zürich

Tbc

17 November
11am
(ITZ) SR 001 (HA)

Pavel Turek
University of Birmingham

Tbc

18 November
5pm
(IM) HS 11

Matija Bucić
University of Vienna

Tbc
(FIM Colloquium)

25 November
4pm
Online

Shoham Letzter
University College London

Tbc

2 December
4pm
(IM) SR 033

Sandra Albrechtsen
University of Leipzig

Tbc

12 December
Time Tbc

Mykhaylo Tyomkyn
Charles University, Prague

Tbc

Schedule Summer Semester 2025

Time and Place Speaker Title

22 April
4pm
Online

Mehtaab Sawhney
Columbia University, New York

Tricks around thresholds and stopping times

6 May
5pm
(IM) HS 11

Stefan Glock
Universität Passau

Hamilton cycles in graphs: A journey that starts randomly
and ends with the unexpected

13 May
5pm
(AM) HS 9

Jaroslav Nešetřil
Charles University, Prague

Subgraphs, orderings and homomorphisms
(Poljak lecture)

20 May
4pm
(IM) SR 010

Kalina Petrova
ISTA, Vienna

The Hamilton space of pseudorandom graphs

27 May
4pm
Online

Matija Bucić
Princeton University

Equiangular lines via improved eigenvalue multiplicity

3 June
4pm
(IM) SR 010

Silas Rathke
FU Berlin

The maximum diameter of d-dimensional simplicial complexes

10 June
4pm
(IM) SR 010

Alexandra Wesolek
TU Berlin

Plane packings of geometric graphs

17 June
4pm
Online

Nemanja Draganić
University of Oxford

Half gone, still Hamilton: resilience in pseudorandom graphs

24 June
5pm
(IM) HS 11

Dan Král'
Universität Leipzig

Analytic approach to extremal combinatorics
(FIM Colloquium)

1 July
4pm
(IM) SR 010

Zak Smith
Universität Heidelberg

Factors and covers in the budget-constrained random graph process

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