Combinatorics and applications

The Department of Combinatorics and its Applications was founded in 2021, when the Department of Discrete Mathematics was divided into three smaller groups, the sizes of which are closer to that of the other departments of the institute. Although formally we form three different divisions, we organize all three combinatorial seminars (the Combinatorics Seminar, the Extremal Set Systems Seminar, and the Combinatorial Search Theory Seminar) of the institute together with the Department of Graph Theory and the Department of Extremal Combinatorics.

In our department, we conduct research on both theoretical and application-oriented topics related to combinatorics (graph limit theory, network theory, algorithms in random graphs, etc.) in projects funded by the EU and the Hungarian government. The majority of our staff are young researchers involved in these research projects.