Spring 2025

Feb 6: Huy Pham (Caltech and IAS), ``Independent sets in random Cayley graphs'', abstract.

Feb 13: no seminar

Feb 20: Colin Defant (Harvard), ``Random subwords, pipe dreams, and billiards'', abstract.

Feb 27: Richard Montgomery (U. Warwick), ``Large transversals in equi-n-squares'', abstract.

Mar 6: Lior Gishboliner (U Toronto), ``New results on the complexity of edge-modification problems'', abstract.

Mar 13: spring recess

Mar 20: Nicolas Trotignon (ENS Lyon), ``Every graph is essential to large treewidth'', abstract.

Mar 27: Daniel McGinnis (Princeton), ``A necessary and sufficient condition for k-transversals'', abstract.

Apr 3: Robert Simon, ``Proper graph colouring, optimization, and paradoxical decompositions'', abstract.

Apr 10: Scott Baldridge (Louisiana State U), ``State-reducibility and a new gauge-theoretic approach to the four color theorem'', abstract.

Apr 17: James Leng (UCLA), ``Szemerédi’s theorem, primes, and nilsequences'', abstract.

Apr 22: Alexey Pokrovskiy (UCL), ``Group-harmonious labelings of trees'', abstract.

Apr 24: Zhihan Jin (ETH Zurich), ``The Helly number of Hamming balls and related problems'', abstract.

Fall 2025 (TBA)

For information about the seminar please send email to pds@math.princeton.edu