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Special Colloquium

Separating words, and triangles

Zach Chase

Location:  Hill 705
Date & time: Monday, 17 November 2025 at 2:00PM - 3:00PM

We discuss two stories of simple questions leading to interesting connections. The first concerns the minimum number of states a deterministic finite automaton needs to distinguish between two given strings. The second concerns the maximum number of triangles in an n-vertex graph with maximum degree d. No background assumed.