October 25, 2017, 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Location:
Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor
Rutgers University
Hill Center
Mathematics Department
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Yonah Biers-Ariel, Rutgers University
Combinatorial Nullstellensatz is a surprisingly powerful proof technique based on an elementary observation. We will look at some results from Noga Alon’s original paper which demonstrate the ability of this strategy to make very difficult problems quite straightforward.