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# Lunchtime Seminars in 2014

Below you can find information about past seminars in this series from 2014. The seminars are listed in reverse chronological order, most recent first.

Friday 4 July
Nicola Wittur (LSE)
Shapley Value on Convex Geometries

A central question in cooperative game theory is the problem of a "fair" allocation of the value that has been generated by a coalition of players among the individual players. The Shapley value is one of the most common allocation rules studied so far. It is based on the assumption that every subset of players is a feasible coalition. There have been attempts to analyze situations (and the corresponding Shapley value) in the case of restricted cooperation possibilities. Based on a paper by Bilbao and Edelman, we will present the case in which the feasible coalitions form a convex geometry: we will introduce their main findings and will point at some drawbacks of their approach.

Friday 20 June
Andrzej Rucinski (Poznan)
Exponential bounds for Folkmann numbers

Abstract: Not available

Friday 21 March
Julia Ehrenmueller (TU Hamburg-Harburg)
Almost acyclic avoider-enforcer games

In this talk we consider biased (1:b) Avoider-Enforcer games in the monotone and strict versions.  In particular, we show that Avoider can keep his graph being a forest for every but maybe the last round of the game if b \geq 200 n \ln n.  By this we obtain essentially optimal upper bounds on the threshold biases for the non-planarity game, the non-k-colorability game, and the K_t-minor game. Moreover, we give a slight improvement for the lower bound in the non-planarity game.

This is joint work with Dennis Clemens, Yury Person, and Tuan Tran

Friday 14 March
Yury Person (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
Minimum degree of minimal Ramsey graphs for multiple colors

A graph $G$ is called $H$-Ramsey if no matter how one colors its edges red/blue, there is a monochromatic copy of $H$.

We say that $G$ is minimal $H$-Ramsey if $G$ is $H$-Ramsey, but no proper graph of it is. Burr, Erd\H{o}s and Lovász studied minimum degree among all minimal $K_t$-Ramsey graphs and showed that it equals $(t-1)^2$. We discuss generalizations of their result to more colors.

Joint work with Jacob Fox, Andrey Grinshpun, Anita Liebenau and Tibor Szabó.

Friday 7 March
Daniel Quiroz (LSE)
Generalized coloring numbers.

Based on a paper of Kierstead and Yang (Orderings on Graphs and Game Coloring Number, 2003) generalized coloring numbers will be presented. The existence of upper bounds for the k-coloring number will be discussed for the case of planar graphs, together with some applications.

Friday 28 February
Jozsef Balogh (University of Illinois & University of Szeged)
Subdivisions of a large clique in $C_6$-free graphs

Mader conjectured that every $C_4$-free graph has a subdivision of a clique of order linear in its average degree. We show that every $C_6$-free graph has such a subdivision of a large clique.

We also prove the dense case of Mader's conjecture in a stronger sense, i.e.for every $c$, there is a $c'$ such that every $C_4$-free graph with average degree $cn^{1/2}$ has a subdivision of a clique $K_\ell$ with $\ell=\lfloor c'n^{1/2}\rfloor$ where every edge is subdivided exactly $3$ times.

This is joint work with Hong Liu and Maryam Sharifzadeh.

This lecture forms part of the Discrete Mathematics and Game Theory Seminar

Friday 21 February
Alexey Pokrovskiy (FU Berlin)

Graphs with 2|G|-2 edges

We discuss graphs on n vertices which have 2n-2 edges and no proper induced subgraphs of minimum degree 3. Erdős, Faudree, Gyárfás, and Schelp conjectured that such graphs always have cycles of lengths 3,4,5,...,C(n) for some increasing function C(n). We'll talk about a disproof this conjecture. We'll also discuss a related problem about possible leaf to leaf path lengths in trees.

This is joint work with Narins and Szabó.

Friday 14 February
Ron Peretz (LSE)

Tutorial: Blackwell's Approachability Theorem

Friday 24 January
Matthew Jenssen (LSE)

Minimum degree Turán problems

Turán problems concern the maximum number of edges in an F-free r-graph, but it is also natural to ask about the maximum possible minimum degree. More precisely, for an r-graph G and 0\leq s \leq r-1 let \delta_s(G) be the minimum over all sets S of s vertices of the number of edges containing S. We can then define a generalised Turán  number ex_s(n,F) as the largest value of \delta_s(G) attained by an F-free r-graph G on n vertices. We will discuss recent developments in the study of such Turán numbers and establish the best known asymptotic lower bound for ex_2(n,K_4^3)/n.

Friday 17 January
Zibo Xu (Stockholm School of Economics)

Title and abstract not available

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