Course Introduction

• Prerequisite：a bachelor degree in mathematics or related field
• Recommended for： graduate students
• Introduction：

This seminar is held every semester and has to be taken at least twice by every student enrolled in the combinatorics graduate program. The main goal is to expose students from the combinatorics graduate program to different topics in combinatorics such as graph theory, analysis and design of algorithms, algebraic combinatorics, analytic combinatorics, applications of combinatorics in biology etc. The course is discussion-based with students preparing papers or book chapters and presenting them to the other participants. Occassionally, experts working in combinatorics are invited to give a talk about their current research work.