Bezout reading group 2013-2014

Purpose. The Bezout reading group meets every monday at 10:30 in room 4B084 for discussion on topics related to algorithms, combinatorics, geometry...

Schedule. The tentative schedule for 2013-2014 is:

• November 4, 2013: crash course on simplicial complexes (Xavier Goaoc)
• November 12, 2013: crash course on matroids (Frederic Meunier).
  
• November 18, 2013: no meeting
• November 25th, 2013: no meeting
• December 2nd, 2013: the union-closed sets conjecture (Arnaud Carayol)
• December 9th, 2013: break due to the AERES visit
• December 16th, 2013: dichotomy for CSP problems (Johan Thapper)
• January 6th, 2014: kernel methods in parameterized complexity (Stephane Vialette)
• January 13th, 2014: epsilon-nets (1) (Nabil Mustafa)
• January 27th, 2014: epsilon-nets (2) (Nabil Mustafa)
• (long break)
• May 19th, 2014: An introduction to geometric group theory (Romain Dujardin, LAMA)
• May 26th, 2014: The decidability of the finiteness of groups generated by certain Mealy automata (Ines Kliman, LIAFA)

Pool of topics for future meetings: VC dimension, simplicial homology, discrepancy, algorithms based on inclusion-exclusion...