2025 Fields-Carleton Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- In-person event
- 1301 Health Sciences, Carleton University, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Contact
- rima mattar, rima.mattar@carleton.ca, 6138788778
Speaker: Dr. Maria Chudnovsky
Mathematics Department, Princeton University
2025 Fields-Carleton Distinguished (Public) Lecture
Topic: What Makes a Problem Hard?
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Health Sciences Building, Room 1301 (7:00 to 8:00PM)
Carleton University
Graph theory is a powerful mathematical tool for modeling real life situations. But once the model is built, how useful is it for finding a solution? The answer depends on how complicated the graph we have constructed is. What makes a graph complicated and when is finding a solution difficult?
There are many possible answers to this question; in this talk we will discuss some of them. We will start with a brief overview of the history of the subject. No prior knowledge of graph theory is assumed.
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