Dear all,

The graduate students' reading seminar is for PhD students at KAM & IUUK, who work in cs and/or discrete mathematics. The seminar meets on Thursday 9:50-12:10. This semester in S6. This semester it is run by me and Pavel Valtr.

We will start Feb 22 with an organizational meeting (selection of papers & dates, but also an open discussion about possible improvements to the seminar format, etc.). The first meeting will start at 10:40 (in room S6).

Typically, each meeting we learn about one paper from one of the participants. The papers are carefully preselected, so that we learn about top level recent results and about new techniques that are used.

The person presenting the paper shall read it in advance. For each of the papers there will be a "mentor" who will be glad to help you decide what to present and how. More about this in the first meeting.

The seminar has a web page at https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~dsemweb/

If you are unsure about what paper to choose, you may also discuss it with your advisor. He or she may also suggest a paper especially for you -- this is certainly possible and welcome, pending confirmation by the seminar organizers -- to check if the paper is suitable (that is, interesting also for people who would not be directly working on the topic of the paper).

Further information about the seminar will be sent to the email list dokt-seminar-l@kam.mff.cuni.cz, to which you can subscribe at https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/mailman3/postorius/lists/dokt-seminar-l.kam.mff.cuni...

See you at the seminar!

Martin