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Longest Cycles in 2-connected Graphs

November 12, 2025, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Location:

Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor

Rutgers University

Hill Center

Mathematics Department

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Pablo Blanco, Rutgers University

We will talk about ... longest cycles in 2-connected graphs. When the longest cycle length is the number of vertices, longest cycles are Hamilton cycles. We will proceed chronologically with an introduction to textbook-results, then with more recent results by Yuan (and others if there is time).