Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
Title: The replication conjecture II
| Speaker: | Ahmad Abdi |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 5417 |
Abstract: In 1993, Conforti and Cornuejols conjectured that replicating the vertex of a clutter preserves the packing property. I will present some tools that will be helpful in tackling this conjecture. The upshot is to take advantage of the fact that clutters with the packing property exclude delta minors, as well as some other small minors.
Joint work with G. Cornuejols and K. Pashkovich.