Georgia State University Combinatorics Seminar

This seminar is organized by Sam Spiro. Our meetings for Spring 2026 will typically take place 1:00pm on Thursdays in Room 1441 at 25 Park Place; though the exact time may vary depending on the needs of the speaker. Below is the current schedule. Feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to give a talk on any of the open days or if you'd like to be added to our mailing list!

Date Speaker Title
Spring 2026
1/22/26 Chris Wells (Auburn) A discrete view of Gromov's filling area conjecture
1/30/26 Friday 1:00 Tianchi Yang (GT) Maximum Size of a Uniform Family with Bounded VC-dimension
2/5/26 Xiaoyu He (GT) TBD
2/12/26 Sean English (UNC Willmington) TBD
2/19/26 Ruben Ascoli (GT) TBD
2/26/26 Jade Lintott (GT) TBD
3/5/26 TBD TBD
3/12/26 Chase Wilson (UCSD) TBD
3/19/26 N/A (Spring Break)
3/26/26 Owen Henderschedt (Auburn) TBD
4/2/26 Alexander Polyanskii (Emory) TBD
4/9/26 Jiaxi Nie (GT) TBD
4/16/26 Mohsen Aliabadi (Clayton) TBD
4/23/26 TBD TBD
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Fall 2025
9/11/25 Sam Spiro (GSU) New Eigenvalue Bounds for the Fractional Chromatic Number.
9/18/25 N/A N/A.
9/25/25 N/A N/A.
10/2/25 Sean Longbrake (Emory) On the Number of H-Free Hypergraphs.
10/9/25 Corrine Yap (GTech) Giant Component of Random Graphs with Given Degrees.
10/16/25 Quentin Dubroff (CMU) On the "Second" Kahn-Kalai conjecture.
10/23/25 John Byrne (Delaware) Turán and spectral Turán problems.
10/30/25 N/A (ACC Talk)
11/6/25 Ayush Basu (Emory) Regularity method for cluster hypergraphs and sparse hypergraphs.
11/13/25 Aiya Kuchukova (GTech) Sampling Colorings with Fixed Color Class Sizes.
11/20/25 N/A Day Before Thanksgiving Break.
11/27/25 N/A Thanksgiving Break.
12/4/25 N/A (ACC Talk)