2018-10-15 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-MP7 (formerly FAMNIT-POŠTA) Bojan Kuzma (University of Primorska) Matrices with extremal commutants and beyond Matrices whose commutant is either maximal or minimal with respect to set-inclusion were classified in 2005 by Dolinar and Šemrl in their pursuit towards…
2018-10-08 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-MP7 (formerly FAMNIT-POŠTA) Štefko Miklavič (University of Primorska) Efficient dominating sets in Cayley graphs on abelian groups An independent set D of vertices in a graph is an efficient dominating set when each vertex not in D is…
2018-10-04 11:00-12:00 FAMNIT-MP7 (former FAMNIT-POŠTA) Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser University and IMFM) Approximating the genus of dense graphs Determining the genus of graphs is one of the fundamental NP-complete problems. Thus it makes sense to ask whether the genus can…
2018-07-04 9:30-12:00 FAMNIT-VP N. Mitrovic, M. Safe, M. Milanic, N. Chiarelli The First Koper – Bahia Blanca Workshop on Structural and Algorithmic Graph Theory The First Koper – Bahia Blanca Workshop on Structural and Algorithmic Graph TheoryUP FAMNIT, Glagoljaska 8,…
2018-05-25 15:00-18:00 FAMNIT-Muzejski3 Vladimir Gurvich (Rutgers University, NJ, USA and National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) Saddle points and Nash equilibria in pure and mixed strategies The lectures will be on – Friday, May 25, 2018, 15:00…
2018-05-23 10:00 — 14:00 FAMNIT-VP Sugata Gangopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Roorke, India) Introduction to Quantum Computing Quantum Computers are built on the principles of Quantum Mechanics. It has been proved that many difficult problems can be solved by quantum…
2018-05-21 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-POŠTA Tobias Kuna (University of Reading, United Kingdom) Cluster expansion and combinatorial species of graphs In this talk I want to present the connection between the so-called cluster expansion and relation between species of graphs.Cluster expansion is a…
2018-05-14 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-POŠTA Yves Crama (HEC Management School, University of Liege, Belgium) Reformulations of nonlinear binary optimization problems A {em pseudo-Boolean function} is a real-valued function f(x)=f(x_1,x_2,ldots,x_n) of n binary variables. It is well-known that every pseudo-Boolean function can be…
2018-05-07 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-POŠTA Endre Boros (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA) NIM and its generalizations The talk gives a light introduction to the theory of combinatorial (impartial) games and the Sprague-Grundy theory. Then we consider a generalization of the well-known…
2018-04-23 11:00 – 13:00 FAMNIT-MP1 Boštjan Šimunič Skeletal muscle mechanics: the need for new approaches Already in 1923 science confirmed that “the analysis of the mechanical effects of muscle excitements would be incomplete if only changes in muscle length were…