[DMANET] Research School on Graph Packing, deadline 31.1.20

LMS Research School on Graph Packing
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We are inviting applications from PhD students and young researchers for participation in a research school on "Graph Packing":

19 - 25 April 2020,
in Eastbourne, UK.

Lecturers:
- Felix Joos (University of Hamburg, Germany): "Regularity and absorbing for packing"
- Diana Piguet (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): "Random processes and packings"
- Alexey Pokrovskiy (Birkbeck, University of London): "Rainbow matchings and packings"

Plenary Speakers:
- Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Richard Montgomery (Birmingham University, UK)
- Peter Keevash (University of Oxford, UK)

Organisers: Peter Allen, Julia Böttcher, Jozef Skokan (London School of Economics)

Application deadline: 31.1.2020

More information & application form at: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/boettche/ResearchSchool/

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Synopsis:

The application of random processes, the regularity method, and the absorbing method are three powerful modern techniques in Extremal Combinatorics which featured in many significant advances in the field over the last 20 years. One topic that brings all these three approaches together is that of graph and hypergraph packing. Packing problems study conditions under which copies of different graphs can be embedded edge-disjointly into a given host graph. There are applications of this in such diverse areas as information theory, computational complexity, computational biology, experiment design, and the theory of combinatorial games. With the help of the above-mentioned techniques, celebrated breakthroughs were recently possible on a number of long-standing and difficult questions in this area.

The purpose of this Research School is to introduce young researchers to these problems, results, and techniques, and to explore open questions in the field and in related research areas.

We invite applications from all levels of young researchers: we will run exercise classes suitable for PhD students or researchers with limited experience in the area, but also intend to run open problem groups for more experienced researchers.

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The research school is financially supported by the London Mathematical Society and the Heibronn Institute for Mathematical Science. Limited need-based financial support is available for participants.

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