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Program

Video recording of Laci Lovász' plenary talk (Partitioning and decomposing graphs) presented just prior the Building Bridges II conference at the 20th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, Budapest, June 18th, 2018.

Volume of abstracts can be downloaded here.

Clicking on the titles in dark red video recording of the talk opens up.

Monday, July 2nd

Time
Speaker Title
7:30 - 8:45 Registration      
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Part 1 Part 2
9:00 - 9:50 Noga Alon Lovász, vectors, graphs and codes
10:00 - 10:50 Anders Björner Continuous matroids revisited
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break      
11:20 - 12:10 Persi Diaconis Approximate counting; A conversation with Laci
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch break      
14:00 - 14:50 Béla Bollobás The Sharp Threshold for Making Squares
15:00 - 15:50 Sourav Chatterjee Large deviations for random graphs
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break      
16:20 - 17:10 László Babai A palace made of gems: The Laci Lovász treasure chest
17:20 - 17:45 Péter Csikvári Sidorenko-type inequality for determinants
08:45 - 18:00 Posters posted Apers, Assiyatun, Barabás, Molontay, Baskoro, Cao, Corsten

Tuesday, July 3rd

Time
Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:50 Uriel Feige Bipartite matching games
10:00 - 10:50 Jacob Fox Advances on regularity methods and its applications
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break      
11:20 - 12:10 Tibor Jordán Globally rigid graphs and frameworks
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch break      
14:00 - 14:50 Gil Kalai Demolishing bridges and building new ones
15:00 - 15:50 Van Vu Real roots of Random functions
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break      
16:20 - 17:10 Ravi Kannan Singular Value Decomposition in Algorithms: Proofs to Practice
17:20 - 17:45 Ágnes Backhausz On the graph limit approach to the eigenvectors of random graphs
08:45 - 18:00 Posters posted Cox, Dastjerdi, English, Farhrbach, Granovsky, Harper, Hyde, Issac

Wednesday, July 4th

Time
Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:50 Peter Keevash Coloured and directed designs
10:00 - 10:50 Nati Linial Some challenges in high-dimensional combinatorics
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break      
11:20 - 12:10 Jaroslav Nešetřil Structural limits, lifts and clustering
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch break      
14:00 - 14:50 Alexander Razborov Semantic Limits of Combinatorial Objects
15:00 - 15:50 Lex Schrijver On ϑ and Θ
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break      
16:20 - 17:10 Joel Spencer Needles in Exponential Haystacks
17:20 - 17:45 Hamed Hatami Polynomial method and graph bootstrap percolation
08:45 - 18:00 Posters posted Istraete, Jenne, Kamcev, Salum, Kodess, Li, Long, Long
19:30 - Banquet Boat cruise on the Danube

Thursday, July 5th

Time
Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:50 Endre Szemerédi Embedding graphs into larger graphs, results, methods and problems
10:00 - 10:50 Tamás Szőnyi Directions and blocking sets
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break      
11:20 - 12:10 Éva Tardos Small-loss bounds for online learning with partial information
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch break      
14:00 - 14:50 Balázs Szegedy Limits and exchangeability in the additive setting
15:00 - 15:50 Jennifer Chayes Graphons and Graphexes as Limits of Sparse Graphs
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break      
16:20 - 17:10 Christian Borgs Graphexes and Multigraphexes: A Deeper Look
17:20 - 17:45 Endre Csóka Local algorithms on random graphs
08:45 - 18:00 Posters posted Makowsky, Martins, Mohr, Papp, Pehova, Petti, Revuelta, Shlyk

Friday, July 6th

Time
Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:50 Terence Tao Recent progress on Liouville sign patterns
10:00 - 10:50 Gábor Tardos Extremal theory of vertex or edge ordered graphs
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break      
11:20 - 12:10 Santosh Vempala With or Without KLS
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch break      
14:00 - 14:50 Avi Wigderson Mathematics and Computation (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm)
14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break      
15:20 - 15:45 László Végh A constant-factor approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem
08:45 - 16:00 Posters posted Kaszanitzky, Simanjuntak, Simon, Varga, Volec, Walczak, Xu, Zhang

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