# Seminars & Colloquia Calendar

Discrete Math

## Hitting times for Shamir's Problem

#### Jeff Kahn, Rutgers

Location:  Hill 705
Date & time: Monday, 01 April 2019 at 2:00PM - 3:00PM

 Shamir's Problem (circa 1980) asks: for fixed r at least 3 and n a (large) multiple of r, how large should M be so that M random r-subsets of {1, ... ,n} are likely to contain a perfect matching (i.e., n/r disjoint r-sets)? About ten years ago Johansson, Vu and I proved the natural conjecture that this is true if M > C n ln(n), for some large C=C(r). Some listeners may have heard me talk a while back on the asymptotically precise statement: the same behavior holds for any fixed C> 1/r. Here I'll try to say something about the definitive hitting time" version.

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