II Fortaleza Workshop in Combinatorics (ForWorC)

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II Fortaleza Workshop in Combinatorics (ForWorC)

The II Fortaleza Workshop in Combinatorics (ForWorC 2023) aims to bring together researchers and undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics and related areas working in different areas of Combinatorics, with a special focus on the most representative areas in Brazil, namely: Graph Theory and Algorithms, Extremal Combinatorics and Combinatorial Optimization.

Period: 06 to 10 November, 2023.

News:

15/10 – Certificates (link) and photos (link) are available!
27/10 – Registration is closed!
26/09 – Registration is open! Visit: link
26/09 – Profa. Celina needed to cancel her participation at the event. In her slot, there will be a plenary talk by Prof. Júlio Araújo.

Confirmed Speakers:

Júlio Araújo (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil) (CV Lattes)
Fábio Botler (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (CV Lattes)
Erika Martins Coelho (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil) (CV Lattes)
Tatiane Fernandes Figueiredo (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil) (CV Lattes)
Carlos Hoppen (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) (CV Lattes)
Nicolas Nisse (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Université Côte d’Azur, France) (Webpage)
Rosiane de Freitas Rodrigues (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil) (CV Lattes)
Ignasi Sau (LIRMM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France) (Webpage)
Mario Valencia (LORIA, Université de Lorraine, France) (DBLP)

Place: Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Campus do Pici, Departamento de Matemática, Fortaleza – CE. (Google Maps)

Registration: Closed.

List of Participants: Link

Program:

Monday, November 06:
- Room 3, building 914
  - 7h30: Registration.
  - 8h: Mini-course 1. Introduction to Ramsey Theory and Extremal Combinatorics. Profs. Roberto Parente and Guilherme Mota.
- Auditorium, building 910
  - 10h: Coffee-break, Registration.
  - 10h20: Opening.
  - 10h30: Plenary – Nicolas Nisse. Deciding the Erdős-Pósa property in 3-connected digraphs. Chair – Júlio Araújo.
  - 11h15: Plenary – Érika Coelho. Locating-dominating set in graphs. Chair – Júlio Araújo.
  - 12h: Lunch
  - 14h: Plenary – Tatiane Figueiredo. Application of Integer Linear Programming techniques to solve team formation problems in social networks. Chair – Manoel Campêlo.
  - 14h45: Coffee-break
  - 15h15: Open problems session. Chair – Ana Shirley Silva.
Tuesday, November 07:
- Room 3, building 914
  - 8h: Mini-course 2. Algorithmic aspects of the theory of Graph Minors. Prof. Ignasi Sau.
- Auditorium, building 910
  - 10h: Coffee-break.
  - 10h30: Plenary – Rosiane de Freitas. Complexity aspects in graphs and algorithms for special path optimization problems with temporal constraints. Chair – Ana Shirley Silva.
  - 11h15: Plenary – Mario Valencia. The rotation distance and diameter of graph associahedra. Chair – Ana Shirley Silva.
  - 12h: Lunch
  - 14h: Plenary – Fábio Botler. Separating the edges of a graph by a linear number of paths. Chair – Fabrício Benevides.
  - 14h45: Coffee-break
  - 15h15: Open problems session. Chair – Fabrício Benevides.
Wednesday, November 08:
- Room 3, building 914
  - 8h: Mini-course 1. Introduction to Ramsey Theory and Extremal Combinatorics. Profs. Roberto Parente and Guilherme Mota.
- Auditorium, building 910
  - 10h: Coffee-break.
  - 10h30: Plenary – Ignasi Sau. Compound logics for modification problems. Chair – Ana Karolinna Maia.
  - 11h15: Plenary – Carlos Hoppen. Gaussian Elimination using a tree decomposition. Chair – Ana Karolinna Maia.
  - 12h: Lunch
  - 14h: Plenary – Júlio Araújo. On graph convexity parameters in oriented graphs. Chair – Fabrício Benevides.
  - 14h45: Coffee-break
  - 15h15: Problem solving session.
Thursday, November 09:
- Room 3, building 914
  - 8h: Mini-course 2. Algorithmic aspects of the theory of Graph Minors. Prof. Ignasi Sau.
  - 10h: Coffee-break.
  - 10h30: Problem solving session.
  - 12h: Lunch
  - 14h:Problem solving session.
  - 14h45: Coffee-break
  - 15h15: Problem solving session.
Friday, November 10:
- Room 3, building 914
  - 8h: Mini-course 1. Introduction to Ramsey Theory and Extremal Combinatorics. Profs. Roberto Parente and Guilherme Mota.
  - 10h: Coffee-break.
  - 10h30: Problem solving session and Closure.