**Rescheduled** Reading Group on Entropy and Counting- Jane Gao

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Title: Applications of the entropy method: Counting proper colorings of a regular graph

Speaker: Jane Gao
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: Following Section 6 of Galvin's notes on Entropy and Counting, we will explore Galvin and Tetali’s tight upper bound of the number of homomorphisms to a fixed graph admitted by a regular bipartite graph, generalizing an earlier special case, independent sets, proved using entropy by Kahn.  Several open problems will also be presented if time permits.