Workshop on Positional Games and Extremal Combinatorics

Between Mar. 1-5 a joint workshop of Free University Berlin and Tel Aviv University, devoted to positional games and extremal combinatorics, will be held in Tel Aviv University. Participation is open to everybody.

The first day and a half of the workshop will be allocated to introductory/survey lectures on the subject. Then we will continue with lectures reporting about recent results in the field. Also, those interested to be engaged in a joint work on the problems to be posed during the survey talks and the open problems session will have an opportunity to split into groups and to work on the problems.

All lectures will be held in room 309 of the Schreiber building (home of the School of Math Sciences of TAU). The present schedule of this rather informal event (to be possibly updated) is below.

The website of the workshop is (presently): https://sites.google.com/a/mail.tau.ac.il/joint-free-university-of-berlin---tel-aviv-university-workshop-on-positional-games-and-extremal-combinatorics/home/.

In case you have questions about the workshop and your participation in it, please contact Michael Krivelevich (krivelev@post.tau.ac.il) or Gal Kronenberg (galkrone@mail.tau.ac.il).

Looking forward to see you at the workshop.

Michael Krivelevich, Tibor Szabo

Workshop organizers

Sunday Mar 1.

9:30-11:00 Biased Maker-Breaker games and the probabilistic intuition (Tibor Szabo)

11:00- 11:30 coffee

11:30-12:30 Biased Avoider-Enforcer games (Milos Stojakovic)

12:30-14:00 lunch

14:00-15:00 Randomized strategies in positional games (Tomasz Luczak)

15:00-15:30 coffee

15:30-16:30 Coloring and girth (Noga Alon)

16:30-18:00 open problem session

Monday Mar. 2

9:30-10:30 Games on random boards (Michael Krivelevich)

10:30-11:00  coffee

11:00-12:00 Fast strategies and strong games (Dan Hefetz)

12:00-12:30 assignment of groups

12:30-14:00 lunch

14:00-16:00 group work

16:00-16:30 coffee

16:30- 18:00 group work

Tuesday Mar. 3

9:30-10:00 short presentation of groups

10:00-10:30 Asaf Ferber

10:30-11:00 Dennis Clemens

11:00-11:30 coffee

11:30-12:00 Anita Liebenau

12:00-12:30 Gal Kronenberg

12:30-14:00 lunch

14:00-16:00 group work

16:00-16:30 coffee

16:30- 18:00 group work

Wednesday Mar. 4

9:30-10:00 short presentation of groups

10:00-10:30 Alexey Pokrovskiy

10:30-11:00  coffee

11:00-11:30 Tuan Tran

11:30-12:00 talk ???

12:30-14:00 lunch

14:00-16:00 group work

16:00-16:30 coffee

16:30- 18:00 group work

Thursday Mar. 5

Unscheduled presently (PURIM)