Julian Sahasrabudhe: The Ramsey numbers – new results and new perspectives

Location

FD5, Albanova

Schedule

15:15–16:15 Colloquium lecture by Julian Sahasrabudhe.
16:15–17:00 SMC social get together with refreshments.

Abstract

In this talk I will try to motivate the interest and some of the mystery in the Ramsey numbers R(k), which are fundamental quantities in combinatorics. I will go on to discuss some recent progress on our understanding of these numbers and make some connections to problems about the geometry of random variables in high dimensions.