Forbidden paths

Series
ACO Colloquium
Time
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Jaroslav Nesetril – Charles University, Prague
Organizer
Robin Thomas

Please Note: ***Refreshments at 4PM in Skiles 236.***

Forbidding (undirected or directed) paths in graphs, what can be easier? Yet we show that in the context of coloring problems (CSP) and structural graph theory, this is related to the notions tree depth, (restricted) dualities, bounded expansion and nowhere dense classes with applications both in and out of combinatorics.