Tutte colloquium-Peter Nelson

Monday, March 3, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Title:Two-coloured lines in finite geometry

Speaker: Peter Nelson
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Location: MC 5501

Abstract: Given a colouring of the points of a projective plane, when is it true that every line contains at most two colours? I will discuss recent generalizations of classical results in this area, and a surprising link with a famous question in graph theory.