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Excursions into the Mathematical Universe: Matchings in Graphs, from Stable Marriages to Blooming
18. February,16:00 - 17:00
A series of popular science lectures titled “Excursions into the Mathematical Universe.” The lectures are primarily intended for students of secondary schools in the Primorska region, but they are also open to the general public. Researchers and university lecturers will present ancient and modern mathematical concepts and their applicability in various fields of science, natural sciences, and social sciences in an accessible way.
Matchings in Graphs, from Stable Marriages to Blooming
Suppose we have six gifts that we would like to distribute among five friends. Can we give one gift to each friend in such a way that everyone receives something they will be happy with? This is an example of a problem where matchings can help us if we model it using graphs. In this lecture, we will look at what a graph is, what a matching in a graph is, how we can efficiently find one (if it exists at all), and some other problems that can be solved using matchings.
About the lecturer: Nina Chiarelli graduated in 2011 from the Faculty of Education in Koper in the field of mathematics and computer science and earned her PhD in mathematical sciences in 2016 at UP FAMNIT. She has been employed at UP FAMNIT since 2014, first as an assistant and later as an assistant professor. Since 2017, she has also been employed as a researcher at UP IAM. Her research focuses on discrete mathematics, with an emphasis on graph theory.
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