Thursday, August 28, 2025

2025-09-03 / 16:00 ~ 17:00

IBS-KAIST 세미나 - IBS-KAIST 세미나:

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2025-09-01 / 17:00 ~ 18:00

편미분방정식 통합연구실 세미나 - 편미분방정식:

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In recent years, the behavior of solution fronts of reaction-diffusion equations in the presence of obstacles has attracted attention among many researchers. Of particular interest is the case where the equation has a bistable nonlinearity. In this talk, I will consider the case where the obstacle is a wall of infinite span with many holes and discuss whether the front can pass through the wall and continue to propagate (“propagation”) or is blocked by the wall (“blocking”). The answer depends largely on the size and the geometric configuration of the holes. This problem has led to a variety of interesting mathematical questions that are far richer than we had originally anticipated. Many questions still remain open. This is joint work with Henri Berestycki and François Hamel.

2025-09-01 / 16:00 ~ 16:50

편미분방정식 통합연구실 세미나 - 편미분방정식:

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In this talk I will discuss front propagation in the KPP type reaction-diffusion equations with spatially periodic coefficients. Since the pioneering work of Kolmogorov--Petrovsky--Piscounov and Fisher in 1937, front propagations in KPP type reaction-diffusion equations have been studied extensively. Starting around 1950's, KPP type equations have played an important role in mathematical ecology, in particular, in the study of biological invasions in a given habitat. What is particularly important is to estimate the speed of propagating fronts. In the spatially homogeneous case, there is a simple formula for the speed, which was given in the work of KPP and Fisher in 1937. However, if the coefficients are spatially periodic, estimating the front speed is much more difficult, and it involves the principal eigenvalue of a certain operator that is not self-adjoint. In this talk, I will mainly focus on the one-dimensional problem and give an overview of the past research on this theme starting around 1980's. I will also present a work of mine on KPP type equations in 2D in periodically stratified media.

2025-08-29 / 16:30 ~ 17:30

IBS-KAIST 세미나 - 이산수학: The Erdős-Pósa property for circle graphs as vertex-minors

by 엄상일(IBS 이산수학 그룹)

We prove that for any circle graph $H$ with at least one edge and for any positive integer $k$, there exists an integer $t=t(k,H)$ so that every graph $G$ either has a vertex-minor isomorphic to the disjoint union of $k$ copies of $H$, or has a $t$-perturbation with no vertex-minor isomorphic to $H$. Using the same techniques, we also prove that for any planar multigraph $H$, every binary matroid either has a minor isomorphic to the cycle matroid of $kH$, or is a low-rank perturbation of a binary matroid with no minor isomorphic to the cycle matroid of $H$. This is joint work with Rutger Campbell, J. Pascal Gollin, Meike Hatzel, O-joung Kwon, Rose McCarty, and Sebastian Wiederrecht.

2025-09-02 / 16:30 ~ 17:30

IBS-KAIST 세미나 - 이산수학: A Rainbow version of Lehel's conjecture

by Zhifei Yan(IBS 극단 조합 및 확률 그룹)

Lehel's conjecture states that every 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ admits a partition of its vertices into two monochromatic cycles. This was proven for sufficiently large n by Luczak, Rödl, and Szemerédi (1998), extended by Allen (2008), and fully resolved by Bessy and Thomassé in 2010. We consider a rainbow version of Lehel’s conjecture for properly edge-coloured complete graphs. We prove that for any properly edge-coloured $K_n$ with sufficiently large n, there exists a partition of the vertex set into two rainbow cycles, each containing no two edges of the same colour. This is joint work with Pedro Araújo, Xiaochuan Liu, Taísa Martins, Walner Mendonça, Luiz Moreira, and Vinicius Fernandes dos Santos.

2025-09-03 / 16:00 ~ 18:00

학과 세미나/콜로퀴엄 - 위상수학 세미나:

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Given any smooth 4-manifold bounding a Seifert manifold, the Seifert action on its boundary can be used to define their boundary Dehn twists. If the given 4-manifold is simply-connected, this Dehn twist is always topologically isotopic to the identity, but usually not smoothly isotopic, making it a very nice potential example of exotic diffeomorphisms. In this talk, we prove that for any Brieskorn homology sphere bounding a positive-definite 4-manifold, their boundary Dehn twists are always infinite-order exotic. This is a joint work with JungHwan Park and Masaki Taniguchi.

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