Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics
January 23 - January 26, 2013
Organizers | Sponsors | Scientific Overview | Participants
Organizers
Benny Sudakov, UCLA, with the cooperation of
- Shagnik Das, UCLA
- Humberto Naves, UCLA
Sponsors
This workshop is supported by National Science Foundation.
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Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics are two of the most central branches of modern combinatorial theory. Extremal Combinatorics deals with problems of determining or estimating the maximum or minimum possible cardinality of a collection of finite objects satisfying certain requirements. Such problems are often related to other areas including Computer Sciences, Information Theory, Number Theory and Geometry. This branch of Combinatorics has developed spectacularly over the last few decades. Probabilistic Combinatorics can be informally described as a (very successful) hybrid between Combinatorics and Probability, whose main objects of study are probability distributions on discrete structures. Probabilistic arguments have proven to be extremely powerful when applied to problems from many areas of Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science.
This workshop will bring together researchers representing the whole spectrum of Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, who will communicate new results and discuss directions for future discoveries.
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- Jozsef Balogh (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Tom Bohman (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Boris Bukh (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Ameera Chowdhury (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Fan Chung (University of California, San Diego)
- David Conlon (University of Oxford)
- Shagnik Das (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Jacob Fox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Alan Frieze (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Zoltán Füredi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- David Gamarnik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Wenying Gan (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Andrey Grinshpun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Dan Hefetz (University of Birmingham)
- Hao Huang (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
- Alexandr V. Kostochka (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Michael Krivelevich (Tel Aviv University)
- Choongbum Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- John Lenz (University of Illinois, Chicago)
- Po-Shen Loh (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Eyal Lubetzky (Microsoft Research, Redmond)
- Jie Ma (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Dhruv Mubayi (University of Illinois, Chicago)
- Humberto Naves (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Hoi Nguyen (Yale University)
- Asaf Shapira (Tel Aviv University)
- Jozsef Solymosi (University of British Columbia)
- Joel Spencer (New York University)
- Angelika Steger (ETH, Zurich)
- Benny Sudakov (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Jacques Verstraete (University of California, San Diego)
- Yufei Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Conference Venue
All the meetings will be held at the Portola Plaza Building (IPAM). [Directions]
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Humberto Naves
Office: Math Sciences 6160, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
E-mail: hnaves@math.ucla.edu
Shagnik Das
Office: Math Sciences 6160, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
E-mail: shagnik@math.ucla.edu
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