The ACO Seminar (2025–2026)

September 4, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Dylan Altschuler, Carnegie Mellon University
Dimension reduction, universal approximation, and nonlinear spectral gaps

September 11, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Max Aires, Rutgers University
Balancing extensions in posets of large width

September 18, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Olha Silina, Carnegie Mellon University
Perfect matchings, strongly connected orientations, and lattice theory

September 25, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maximal independent sets in the middle two layers of the Boolean lattice

October 2, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Yang Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
On Inverse Theorems and Additive Combinatorics

October 7, 3:00pm, Wean 7218 *NOTE: unusual day!
Aiya Kuchukova, Georgia Tech
Sampling colorings with fixed color class sizes

October 9, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Luke Postle, University of Waterloo
On Nash-Williams' Conjecture and its Generalizations

October 23, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Dylan Langharst, Carnegie Mellon University
Grünbaum’s inequality for probability measures

October 30, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Sharon Robins, Carnegie Mellon University
Integer decomposition property for pairs of polytopes

November 6, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Aleksandre Saatashvili, Carnegie Mellon University
Maximal sets of a given diameter in Hamming cubes

November 13, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Amanda Priestly, UT Austin
Probability and Parking

November 13, 3:30pm, Wean 7218 *NOTE: double-header!
John Byrne, University of Delaware
Nonabelian Sidon sets and extremal problems on digraphs

November 20, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Jinyoung Park, New York University
The Convexity Conjecture, the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture, and introduction to k-thresholds

December 4, 3:00pm, Wean 7218
Maya Sankar, Institute for Advanced Study
The Discrete Fundamental Group