Graph Theory, SF2740 / Kombinatorik III, MM8011


Tentative Lecture Plan

Course homepage: http://www.math.kth.se/math/GRU/20013.2014/SF2740/


Classes are Thursdays 10.15-12.00.
Except Oct 24 is moved to Monday Oct 28, 10.15-12.00
Nr Date Room Chapter in Diestel Topic Suggested exercises
(Numbering as in the
pdf-version of the book)
1 5/9 306 1.1-1.3 Introduction 1:1-8
2 12/9 32 1.3-1.5,1.8 Basics 1:11,12,13,17,22,23(i),30
3 19/9 32 1.6, 2.1 Bipartite graphs 1:26,27; 2:1,4,10,12
4 26/9 32 2.2,2.5 + extra Matchings, Gallai-Edmonds structre thm, Gallai-Milgram 2:14,16,18,19,20,29
1st set of hand-in-problems distributed
5 3/10 32 3.1,3.2 Connectivity 3:1,2,6,7,9
6 10/10 32 3.3,3.4 Menger and Mader thms 3:10,15,18,19,24 1st set of hand-in-problems due
7 17/10 32 1.7,4.1-4.2 Minors 1:29; 4:1,2,3,4,6
8 28/10 306 4.2,4.4,7.3 Planar graphs, Hadwiger's conj. 4:15,17,18,20; 7:26,28,30
9 31/10 5.1-5.2 Coloring vertices 5:3,6,7,12,16,18
10 7/11 5.3-5.4 Coloring edges and list coloring 5:21,25,29,31,33
11 14/11 5.5 Perfect graphs 5:37, 39, 40, 42, 43
12 21/11 11.1-11.2 Random graphs 11:1,2,3,4
13 28/11 11.2-11.3 Probabilistic method, almost all graphs 6,7,8,10,11,12
14 5/12 7.1,7.4,7.5 Extremal graph theory, the regularity lemma
15 12/12 TBA
Last updated 2013-09-11.