Abstract

Configurations of axis-parallel boxes inare extensively studied in combinatorial geometry. Despite their innocent appearance, there are many old problems involving their structure that are still not well understood. I will talk about a construction, which shows that starting from dimension, configurations of boxes are more complicated than people conjectured.

Speaker Intro

Istvan Tomon obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. After spending several years at EPFL and ETH Zurich, he is currently employed at Umea University. His research is focused on extremal combinatorics and related areas. In 2021, he received the European Prize in Combinatorics for his contributions in Ramsey and extremal hypergraph theory.