Second article and funny coincidences!

I will keep this short as it’s quite late already.

So, this blog has been quite quiet. So what happened since then?

Basically, I am currently finishing my master’s thesis under Mathias. Before that I was in Korea for two months in the ECOPRO research group under Hong Liu and had to apply to a bunch of PhD places. Man, stressful times.

Oh, well that’s done and we have good news: Another paper!

This came from a collaboration that was initiated through the 1st ECOPRO Combinatorial Week workshop 2023.

Funnily enough, as I am currently back in Karlsruhe and Letícia is giving a talk this week, I decided to go to the talk yesterday / today. It was nice seeing some familiar faces and talking with some former student colleagues, and Felix Clemen, Dingyuan Liu and Letícia. The most random (pun intended) part was, however, that Letícia last-minute decided to give a talk on that preprint! It’s the first time that I sat in the room while someone else is talking about a paper where I was a co-author. Oh well.

On our (me, Dingyuan, Felix and Letícia) trip to the palace, we also made Jakob (Zimmermann) who recently finished his bachelor thesis under Maria. Turns out – this was news to me – that his result and his thesis got cited by Jacob Fox and he will be going to Berlin for Szabó! To think that I graded that guy’s homework just two years ago for an introductory class in graph theory$\dots$

To be fair, I am going to Atlanta for my PhD in less than three months. Time really moves. At least I also got to spend some time with friends today too. :)

Update: It is very likely that we will not submit our paper as the key observation can actually be found in one of the paper’s cited by us$\dots$