What is … a stable marriage?

This page hosts information on Ágnes Cseh's talk "What is … a stable marriage?" at the "What is …?" seminar. The talk will take place on Friday, November 5, 3:30pm at the BMS Loft at Urania after the BMS Friday Kovalevskaya lecture by Marie-Francoise Roy.

Abstract

This definitely important question can be answered with the help of graph theory. The stable marriage theorem of Gale and Shapley states that for some men and women there always exists a stable marriage scheme, that is, a set of pairs such that no man and woman mutually prefer each other to their partners in the matching. The stable marriage problem can be extended in several directions, one of the most recent topics deals with network flows. Besides sketching some theorems and unanswered questions we will give some useful hints to find a stable partner in real life.

Video

The video for Ágnes' talk can be found at http://vimeo.com/22385212.

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