We are happy to announce the 8th edition of the Dutch-Belgian seminar in discrete mathematics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on June 12-13, 2025.
This seminar aims to give young researchers a platform to share their recent results on topics under the umbrella of discrete mathematics. Earlier seminar editions were held at TU/e (3 February 2022, 6 October 2023), VUB (25 May 2022, 31 May 2023, 3 May 2024), UGent (20 January 2023, 9 December 2024).
The program for this edition is as follows:
DAY 1: 12 June 2025
10:55-11:00 opening
11:00-12:00 Leo Storme (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
Substructures of Finite Projective Spaces and Finite Classical Polar Spaces
12:00-13:00 lunch
13:00-14:00 Ferdinando Zullo (Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy)
Sidon spaces and quadrics over finite fields
14:00-15:00 Gianira Alfarano (Rennes University, France)
The geometry of one-weight linear codes
15:00-16:00 break
16:00-... PhD defense Jonathan Mannaert
DAY 2: 13 June 2025
10:00-10:30 coffee
10:30-11:00 Louka Peters (Ghent University, Belgium)
Switching graphs and Hadamard matrices
11:00-11:30 Jim Wittebol (VUB, Belgium)
Universality of the asymptotic preorder of graphs
11:30-12:00 Ananth Ravi (TUDelft, Netherlands)
Oddtown, Nearly Orthogonal Sets, and Triangle-Free Graphs
12:00-13:00 lunch
13:00-13:30 Nils van de Berg (TU/e, Netherlands)
Counting cospectral graphs made via switching
13:30-14:00 Fabrizio Conca (TU/e, Netherlands)
Connectivity and linear codes
14:00-14:30 Davide Mattiolo (KULeuven, Belgium)
Pairwise disjoint perfect matchings in r-edge-connected r-graphs
14:30-15:00 coffee
Registration is free but mandatory and possible through the following link:
https://forms.gle/Rg4gTe4CoEamAbNo8
Feel free to forward this invitation to other people that might be interested.
Hope to see you then!
The organizers
Aida Abiad (TU/e, UGent, VUB), Jan De Beule (VUB), and Sam Mattheus (VUB)