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Monday, May 11, 2015

3:00 pm in 241 Altgeld Hall,Monday, May 11, 2015

#### Extremal combinatorics and logical zero-one laws

###### Caroline Terry   [email] (MSCS Department UIC)

Abstract: In this talk we give an overview of some examples of logical zero-one laws, all of which are consequences of theorems in extremal combinatorics characterizing the asymptotic structure of families of finite graphs. We then present a new example of a logical zero-one law which also relies on techniques from extremal combinatorics for its proof. In particular, given integers $r,n\geq 3$, define $M_r(n)$ to be the set of metric spaces with underlying set $\{1,\ldots, n\}$ and with distances in $\{1,\ldots, r\}$. We present results describing the approximate structure of these metric spaces when$r$ is fixed and $n$ is large. As consequences of these structural results, we obtain an asymptotic enumeration for $M_r(n)$, and in the case when $r$ is even, a logical zero-one law. This is joint work with Dhruv Mubayi.

3:00 pm in 241 Altgeld Hall,Monday, May 11, 2015

#### Extremal combinatorics and logical zero-one laws

###### Caroline Terry (UIC )

Abstract: In this talk we give an overview of some examples of logical zero-one laws, all of which are consequences of theorems in extremal combinatorics characterizing the asymptotic structure of families of finite graphs. We then present a new example of a logical zero-one law which also relies on techniques from extremal combinatorics for its proof. In particular, given integers $r,n\geq 3$, define $M_r(n)$ to be the set of metric spaces with underlying set $\{1,\ldots, n\}$ and with distances in $\{1,\ldots, r\}$. We present results describing the approximate structure of these metric spaces when $r$ is fixed and $n$ is large. As consequences of these structural results, we obtain an asymptotic enumeration for $M_r(n)$, and in the case when $r$ is even, a logical zero-one law. This is joint work with Dhruv Mubayi.