In the upcoming Summer Semester, Research Group Discrete Mathematics (Institute of Algebra and Geometry) gives two courses that might be of interest to you:

1) Modern Methods in Combinatorics

2) Research Seminar AG Discrete Mathematics

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1) Modern Methods in Combinatorics

Ilias: 0100018; Credits: 6; Teachers: Arsenii Sagdeev (lectures) and Dingyuan Liu (problem classes)

This year, the course is dedicated to two methods playing a crucial role in modern Combinatorics. The first half is dedicated to the Probabilistic Method. We will see how to apply the linearity of expectation, alterations, the second moment, the Lovász local lemma, and correlation inequalities in various contexts. The second half is dedicated to the Algebraic Methods. We will discuss how finite fields, dimension arguments, matrix eigenvalues, and even tensors can often help to solve seemingly unrelated combinatorial problems.

The classes are weekly on Tuesday and Wednesdays starting from:

Tuesday, April 22, 08:00 - 09:30, gb. 20.30, SR 3.068

Wednesday, April 23,  14:00 - 15:30, gb. 20.30, SR 2.058

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2) Research Seminar AG Discrete Mathematics

This is a weekly seminar of the Discrete Mathematics group at KIT. Every week a student, a group member, or a guest gives a talk on something they are currently working on or just likes to report about. Please feel free to let your friends and colleagues know about the seminar.

Time: Thursday, 14:00-15:30 (starting from April 24)

Location: gb. 20.30, SR 2.058

The talks are announced through the mailing list. Contact arsenii.sagdeev@kit.edu if you would like to subscribe.

The new webpage is under construction and the link will appear later at https://www.math.kit.edu/iag6/

For the archive of previous talks, see https://www.math.kit.edu/iag6/edu/agdiscrmath2024w/

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Best wishes,

Arsenii Sagdeev