Anurag Bishnoi
We are advertising a 3 year postdoctoral position at the University of Western Australia to work at the interface of finite geometry and Ramsey theory. The project is led by John Bamberg at UWA, Sam Mattheus at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and me. It includes funds for extended research visits to...
Anurag Bishnoi
One of the oldest open problem in Ramsey theory has been solved. We now know the asymptotics of Ramsey numbers , for any fixed , up-to log factors. Last month, Domagoj Bradač showed that for any fixed and (where the term is hiding log factors), using a beautiful finite-geometric...
Anurag Bishnoi
The following post is (partly) based on discussions with Dion Gijswijt and Ananth Ravi from September 2025. The famous cap set problem has attracted the attention of various mathematicians from different areas over the last few decades. It asks for the largest possible size, , of a 3-term...
Anurag Bishnoi
In this post, I will discuss a recent breakthrough of Hunter, Pohoata, Verstraete and Zhang on an old problem in finite geometry, which also has interesting consequences outside this area. For example, it improves constructions in a minimal distance problem in and it has been adapted by Ihringer...
Anurag Bishnoi
I am hiring people on my NWO Vidi project. There is one PhD position (4 years) and one postdoc position (2 years) that you can apply for if you are interested. Use the following links to get more information and apply: PhD:...
Anurag Bishnoi
Blocking sets are one of the central topics in finite geometry, which was originally introduced in the context of game theory under the name of `blocking coalitions’: On Finite Projective Games. I first learned about them during my Ph.D. as a source of extremal problems that over the years as led...