Friday, January 28, 2011
3:30 pm, MC 5158

Jim Geelen
University of Waterloo

Rota's Conjecture and nested separations in matroids

Rota's Conjecture is, possibly, the most famous open problem in matroid theory. We will discuss an interesting and useful partial result obtained with Shalev Ben-David. We also discuss how the main ingredient in the proof of that partial result may help towards a complete solution of Rota's Conjecture.

No prior knowledge of matroid theory is required.