Reading group — Fall 2026

The reading group is organised together with the research team of Prof. Albert Atserias. Talks are scheduled for one hour and are usually presented on the blackboard. There is no specific topic. Speakers are welcome to present any paper of interest, provided the material is accessible to a general audience.

Talks

• List colouring via entropy compression
  on September 10 by Xavier Povill
  paper

• Entanglement-assisted Shannon capacity
  on Friday, September 18 by Robin Simoens
  paper

• Off-diagonal Ramsey numbers
  on Friday, October 2 by Antônio Kaique Barroso Fernandes [Postponed to November 5]
  paper

• Induced Ramsey numbers 1
  on October 8 by Roger Lidón
  paper
  

• Induced Ramsey numbers 2
  on October 15 by Dario Martínez
  paper
  

• Cap set bounds
  on Friday, October 23 by Yu Chen
  paper
  

• Supercritical percolation
  on October 29 by Richard Coll
  paper

• No talk
  on November 5

• Cycle double covers
  on November 12 by Marc Noy and Tássio Naia
  paper

• Enumeration of planar maps via mobiles 
  on November 19 by Jordi Castellví
  paper
  

• Off-diagonal Ramsey numbers
  on November 26  by Antônio Kaique Barroso Fernandes
  paper
  

• 3AP-intersecting families
  on December 3 by Juanjo Rué
  paper