- Series
- Combinatorics Seminar
- Time
- Friday, December 3, 2021 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Rose McCarty – University of Waterloo – rose.mccarty@uwaterloo.ca – https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~rmmccart/
- Organizer
- Anton Bernshteyn
Structural graph theory has usually focused on classes of graphs that are 'sparse' rather than 'dense' (that is, have few edges rather than many edges). We discuss this paradigm, focusing on classes with a forbidden vertex-minor. In particular, we discuss progress on a conjecture of Geelen that would totally characterize classes with a forbidden vertex-minor. This is joint work with Jim Geelen and Paul Wollan.