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Welcome to Combinatorics and Optimization
Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (URA). Applications for the Spring 2019 program are now closed.
Tutte's Distinguished Lecture Series
The very successful Tutte's 100th Distinguished Lecture Series has now completed. That success has led to a Tutte Distinguished Lecture once per term. The next lecture is:
Sergey Norin - November 2
*Recordings of occurred talks are all available on C&O's YouTube Channel.
Grad Studies: Fall 2019 applications now open
New Deadline: February 1, '19
News
- Mar. 18, 2019Andrew Conn (1946-2019)
Professor Andrew (Andy) Conn passed away in his sleep on March 14, 2019.
- Mar. 1, 20192019 William Tutte Centenary Undergraduate Scholarship
Farbod Yadegarian is the first recipient of the William Tutte Centenary Undergraduate Scholarship.
- Jan. 16, 2019Sparse structures in graphs and matroids
Professors Peter Nelson (PI) and Luke Postle (co-PI) have been awarded an International Research Partnership Grant (IPRG) for their project Sparse structures in graphs and matroids.
Events
- Mar. 26, 2019Reading Group on Entropy and Counting - John Schanck
Title: On the average size of independent sets in triangle-free graphs
Speaker: John Schanck Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 6486 Abstract:
Some of the results that we've seen in this reading group have been improved recently using the "hard-core model" from statistical physics.
- Mar. 27, 2019Graphs and Matroids Seminar - Rose McCarty
Title: Decomposing graphs into rooted odd trails
Speaker: Rose McCarty Affiliation: University of Waterloo Room: MC 5501 Abstract:
We give a precise characterization of when the edge set of a graph can be partitioned into k trails so that every trail begins and ends at a specified vertex v and has an odd number of edges.
- Mar. 28, 2019Continuous Optimization Seminar - Jimit Majmudar
Title: High-dimensional probability: Bernstein's Inequality
Speaker: Jimit Majmudar Affiliation: University of waterloo Room: MC 5417 Abstract:
We will extend our study of concentration inequalities so far to random matrices.