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A probabalistic version of Szemeredi's regularity lemma

Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar

Speaker: Ben Fineman, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, Mar 4 2010, 12:10PM

Roughly speaking, Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma, allows one to approximate any graph by simpler objects with uniform behavior. I will talk about the generalization of this lemma to hypergraphs, and the probabalistic tools needed to do so.