2018-05-25 15:00-18:00 FAMNIT-Muzejski3 Vladimir Gurvich (Rutgers University, NJ, USA and National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) Saddle points and Nash equilibria in pure and mixed strategies The lectures will be on – Friday, May 25, 2018, 15:00…
On Friday, May 18th, a ceremony was held in Prishtina (Kosovo), as the final part of the University of Primorska International Mathematics Competition 2018. The competition was organized and carried out by UP FAMNIT professors and students, and it was…
2018-05-23 10:00 — 14:00 FAMNIT-VP Sugata Gangopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Roorke, India) Introduction to Quantum Computing Quantum Computers are built on the principles of Quantum Mechanics. It has been proved that many difficult problems can be solved by quantum…
2018-05-21 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-POŠTA Tobias Kuna (University of Reading, United Kingdom) Cluster expansion and combinatorial species of graphs In this talk I want to present the connection between the so-called cluster expansion and relation between species of graphs.Cluster expansion is a…
Next week, the University of Primorska will publish a public tender for Young Researcher candidate in the field of CRIPTOGRAPHY to be trained in the research programme at University of Primorska Andrej Marušič Institute (UP IAM) for obtaining a doctorate…
2018-05-14 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-POŠTA Yves Crama (HEC Management School, University of Liege, Belgium) Reformulations of nonlinear binary optimization problems A {\em pseudo-Boolean function} is a real-valued function f(x)=f(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n) of n binary variables. It is well-known that every pseudo-Boolean function can be…
Have you ever heard of »TEOSINTE«? It is not a Greek God, but an ancestor of corn, that grows in Central America. Wild relatives of crop plants are a great source of genes for creating new varieties. Are you interested…
2018-05-07 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-POŠTA Endre Boros (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA) NIM and its generalizations The talk gives a light introduction to the theory of combinatorial (impartial) games and the Sprague-Grundy theory. Then we consider a generalization of the well-known…
2018-04-26 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-MP1 Peter Horak (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA) Graph Theory as an Integral Part of Mathematics Nowadays nobody doubts the significance of the applications of graph theory to other sciences or to real world problems. This workshop emphasizes…
2018-04-23 10:00-11:00 FAMNIT-POŠTA Micael Toledo (UP FAMNIT) On cubic vertex-transitive tricirculants For a positive integer k, we say a simple graph G is a k-circulant if it admits a semiregular automorphism that partitions its vertex-set into k orbits of the…