On Oct 28, 2026, Hyunwoo Lee (이현우) from KAIST and IBS Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on the proof of the Erdős-Szemerédi sunflower conjecture.
"Proof of the Erdős-Szemerédi sunflower conjecture".
dimag.ibs.re.kr/2026/sunflow…
#New_arXiv_paper
*Ilkyoo Choi* and Hojin Chu,
On strong odd colorings of sparse graphs, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.34874
#New_arXiv_paper
Stephen Chung and *William J. Wesley*,
Constructions for Nearly Diagonal Book Ramsey Numbers, 2026
arxiv.org/abs/2610.36522
On Oct 27, 2026, Xiying Du from @ibsdimag gave a talk at Discrete Math Seminar on characterizing graphs admitting two disjoint connected subgraphs containing X and Y, resp., for any pair (X,Y) of sets of size 2 and 3.
"Characterizing (2,3)-linked graphs"
dimag.ibs.re.kr/2026/xiying-…
The 2026 Combinatorics Workshop (2026 조합론 학술대회) was held from October 20, 2026 to October 22, 2026 at Gonjiam Resort, Gwangju. There were 1 plenary talk, 5 invited talks, and 14 contributed talks.
dimag.ibs.re.kr/2026/2026-co…
#new_arXiv_paper
*Seokbeom Kim* and *Sang-il Oum*,
Every tournament of dichromatic number 10k^2 has a vertex whose out-neighborhood has dichromatic number more than k, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.29043
#New_arXiv_paper
Jungho Ahn, Lars Jaffke, *O-joung Kwon*, Paloma T. de Lima, Hyemi Park,
An Erdős-Pósa theorem for induced packings of even cycles, 2026
arxiv.org/abs/2610.22967
#New_arXiv_paper
Jan Dreier, Robert Ganian, Marlene Gründel, *Roohani Sharma*, and Simon Wietheger,
Solving SAT via Treewidth Backdoors in Linear Time: Beyond Sparsity, 2026.
arXiv.org/abs/2610.18540
#New_arXiv_paper
Jongseo Lee, *Roohani Sharma*, and Sebastian Wiederrecht,
Hitting Minors: Stronger Lower Bounds, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.17664
#New_arXiv_paper
Esther Galby, *Roohani Sharma*, and Bart van der Steenhoven,
Tractability of Hard Digraph Cut Problems on Eulerian Instances: Treewidth Reduction and Reducing CMSO to Unbreakable Eulerian Instances, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.16869
On October 13, 2026, Julien Codsi from Princeton University gave a talk on various results on the tree-independence number of graphs. The title of his talk was “Recent progress in the tree-⍺ world“. dimag.ibs.re.kr/2026/julien-…
#New_published_paper
*Meike Hatzel*, Chun-Hung Liu, Bruce Reed, and Sebastian Wiederrecht,
Bounds on treewidth via excluding disjoint unions of cycles,
Electron. J. Combin., 33(4), #P4.8, October 2026.
doi.org/10.37236/13735
On Oct 6, 2026, Daniel McGinnis from @ibsdimag gave a talk at the Discrete Math Seminar on a commutative-algebraic approach to regularity that yields an optimal colorful fractional Helly theorem for d-Leray simplicial complexes.
dimag.ibs.re.kr/2026/daniel-…
#New_arXiv_paper
*William J. Wesley*,
An elementary proof of the 2-regularity of Pythagorean triples, 2026
arxiv.org/abs/2609.39063
#New_arXiv_paper
*Sang-il Oum* and David R. Wood,
A double-logarithmic upper bound on the chromatic number of the associahedron, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2609.39015
#New_accepted_paper
Jorge Olivares-Vinales and *Semin Yoo*,
Towers and Bratteli-Vershik systems in Fibonacci-like unimodal maps,
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN, accepted, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.21623
#New_accepted_conference_paper
Jan Drier, Robert Ganian, Marlene Gründel, *Roohani Sharma*, and Simon Wietheger,
Solving SAT via Treewidth Backdoors in Linear Time: Beyond Sparsity,
In the Proceedings of SODA 2027 (January 24-27, 2027, Philadelphia, USA), accepted, 2026.
#New_arXiv_paper
*William J. Wesley*,
The Fibonacci numbers are not 3-accessible, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2609.33744
#New_accepted_conference_paper
*Mujin Choi*, Tuukka Korhonen, and *Sang-il Oum*,
Branch-width of represented matroids in matrix multiplication time,
In the Proceedings of SODA 2027 (Philadelphia, USA, January 24-27, 2027), accepted, 2026.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.14428
On September 22, 2026, David R. Wood from Monash University gave a talk on coloring graphs without K_t minor with t colors while avoiding large monochromatic components at the Discrete Math Seminar.
"Proof of the Clustered Hadwiger Conjecture".
dimag.ibs.re.kr/2026/cluster…







