Kate Nimegeers

University of Victoria
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS - UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Kate Nimegeers
March 9, 2023
University of Victoria
If a tricky devil challenged you to complete a Sudoku puzzle of their design, what restrictions could you place on their design to guarantee it was impossible for them to thwart your attempts? More specifically, if you could dictate exactly how many...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS - UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Kate Nimegeers
April 6, 2023
University of Victoria
The Manickam-Miklós-Singhi Conjecture states that for positive integers n and k with n > (4k - 1), a multi-set X = {x_1,x_2, … ,x_n} with real entries and nonnegative sum has at least \binom{n-1}{k-1} subsets of size k with nonnegative sum. This talk...