Sparsity DocCourse Prague 2018:
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Sparsity DocCourse ↗ was held between November 4. and December 15. in Prague on MFF UK, organized by Jaroslav Nešetřil with help of Matěj Konečný, Jan Hubička. The course took 6 weeks and so the majority of speakers and attendees were present only for a small part of the course. On fourth week there was a three day trip to Český Krumlov. The lectures were spread throughout the week days, usually 2 lectures a day; in total there were about 36 lectures.
The course was preceded with a small introducation into model theory as part of the standard course on mathematical methods.
Speakers were: Zdeněk Dvořák ↗, Jaroslav Nešetřil ↗, Daniel Kráľ ↗, Patrice Ossona de Mendez ↗, Marcin Pilipczuk ↗, Michał Pilipczuk ↗, Sebastian Siebertz ↗, Pierre Simon ↗, Blair D. Sullivan ↗, Szymon Toruńczyk ↗, Felix Reidl ↗, Jakub Gajarský ↗.
Themes
- Shallow minors
- Polynomial expansion
- Bounded expansion
- Nowhere dense
- Model checking
- Sparseness and stability
- Limits of sparse graphs
- Neighborhood complexity
- Interpretations
- Kernelization on sparse graphs
- Complex networks and sparsity