The Department of Mathematics hosted the CIMPA School on Recent Advances in Combinatorics and its Application from November 01-11, 2022, introducing Master's level students to basic and advanced concepts in combinatorics.
The CIMPA School on Recent Advances in Combinatorics and its Application was held from November 01-11, 2022.
The school provided an introduction to both basic and advanced concepts in combinatorics, primarily targeting Master's level students. It assumed a reasonable general mathematical background but did not require previous specialized knowledge in the covered topics. The scientific content of the courses was tightly coordinated, offering a concrete learning experience as a foundation for further study.
The material was motivated by an overview of the field and discussions of main open problems. It mainly consisted of relatively simple cases, allowing students to learn specific proof techniques. A significant amount of time was dedicated to exercise and tutorial sessions, where students received individual attention from the lecturers. The first week of the school consisted of four introductory courses covering graph colorings and labeling, F-convexity and related problems, Cayley graphs, and the degree-diameter problem. The second week focused on more advanced topics, including tropical convexity, combinatorics, and commutative algebra, metric spaces over groups, Neumaier graphs, and signed and addressing graphs. The final course discussed new bounds for strongly regular graphs, recent progress on Neumaier graphs, and open problems in signed and addressing graphs.
CIMPA School Lectures
- Colourings and Labelings of Graphs – Andrea SemaniÄová-FeňovÄÃková (Technical University in KoÅ¡ice, Slovakia)
- On F-convexity and Related Problems – Liping Yuan (Hebei Normal University, China)
- Cayley Graphs and the Degree-Diameter Problem – Tomas Vetrik (University of the Free State, South Africa)
- Metric Dimension Related Parameters in Graphs – Yero Ismael Gonzalez (Universidad de Cádiz, South Africa)
- On Neumaier, Signed and Adressing Graphs – Jack Koolen (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
- Computational Workshop: Graph Based Codes with SAGEMath – Edgar MartÃnez-Moro (University of Valladolid, Castilla, Spain)
- Matrices, Graph Labelings, and Ramsey Numbers – Rinovia Simanjuntak (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
- Spectrum Related Invariants of Graphs – Muhammad Imran (U. A. E)
More information: https://www.cimpa.info/en/node/7067