Reading Seminar - Winter 2016/2017

Graph Expanders: interactions between graph theory, number theory and computer science


Main

Research

Courses




Following the survey by Hoory, Linial and Wigderson, we plan to cover several aspects of graph expanders.



We will meet at Room S05 at FME on Thursdays at 15:00

Previous reading groups: Spring 2016 (General content).

What we have seen so far...

When

What

Who

October 6th

Introduction

Juanjo Rué

October 13th

Espectrum of expanders (I) (section 2)

Christoph Spiegel

October 20th

Espectrum of expanders (II) (section 2)

Christoph Spiegel

October 27th

Random walks (I) (section 3)

Clément Requilé

November 3rd

Random walks (II) (section 3)

Clément Requilé

November 10th

Codes (section 1+12)

Simeon Ball

November 15th (Tuesday)

Margulis construction (section 8)

Juanjo Rué

November 24th

Cayley graphs (section 11)

Oriol Serra

December 1st

Zig-zag product (I) (section 9)

Albert Atserias

December 15th

Zig-zag product (II) (section 9)

Tuomas Hakoniemi