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Department of Computer Science and Technology

Date: 
Thursday, 6 February, 2025 - 17:00 to 18:00
Speaker: 
Thomas Ammer (King's College London)
Venue: 
MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Combinatorial optimisation (CO) is a sub-area of discrete mathematics. Basic examples for CO problems are finding a shortest path or a minimum spanning tree in a graph. So-called network flows or variations of matching would be more advanced problems. There are also abstract concepts like matroids that offer an algebraic point of view and a uniform foundation for some of the more concrete problems.

Since the considered structures are finite, it is a natural aim to compute a solution efficiently. That implies an overlap with the theory of algorithms, especially running time analysis.

This talk is mainly about the Isabelle/HOL formalisation of a specific CO problem, namely, minimum cost flows, which are a subtype of network flows. Among others, this includes Orlin's Algorithm, which is a most efficient method to compute a minimum cost flow in general networks. Also, the running time argument for this advanced algorithm and some reductions among flow problems were formalised.

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Seminar series: 
Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

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