Tuesday, March 5, 2019 2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
Title:
Entropy
and
the
Upper
Matching
Conjecture
| Speaker: | Connor Paddock |
| Affiliation: | University of Waterloo |
| Room: | MC 6486 |
Abstract: In this talk we examine the 2013 work of Ilinca and Kahn, in which entropy is used to bound the number of matchings. This work marks the best progress to date on the Upper Matching Conjecture of Friedland, Krop, Lundow, and Markström.