10-MAT-BM306 and 10-MAT-MM1MO2 Topics in Advances Combinatorics

Lecture content

Date Summary Lecture content
Oct 14, 2025 N/A Introductory lecture, selecting topics to be covered
Oct 21, 2025 Lecture 1 List coloring of graphs, Thomassen's Five Color Theorem
Oct 28, 2025 Lecture 2 Coloring graphs embeddable in surfaces of higher genura
Nov 4, 2025 Lecture 3 Applications of Alon-Tarsi Theorem
Nov 11, 2025 Lecture 4 Proof of Alon-Tarsi Theorem
Nov 18, 2025 Lecture 5 Optional material: coloring quadrangulations of the plane, list chromatic number of dense graphs
Nov 25, 2025 Lecture 6 Nowhere-zero flows in graphs
Dec 2, 2025 N/A Dies Academicus (no lecture)
Dec 9, 2025 N/A Student presentation - Cycle plus Triangles Theorem
Dec 16, 2025 N/A Student presentation - list coloring of plane cubic bridgeless graphs
Jan 13, 2026 Lecture 7 Perfect matchings in cubic bridgeless graphs - Petersen's Theorem
Jan 20, 2026 Lecture 8 Student presentation - Nash-Williams Theorem, existence of 8-flows in bridgeless graphs
Jan 27, 2026 TBD Overview of results on graph minors and graph tree-width