Xavier Povill

xpovill73 at gmail.com

Welcome to my personal page! I am a PhD student in Mathematics at UPC (Polytechnical University of Catalonia) in Barcelona, Spain.

I'm working under the supervision of Guillem Perarnau and Patrick Morris on several topics in probabilistic and extremal combinatorics, such as algorithms for sampling graph colorings (through Markov Chain mixing), matchings and covers in hypergraphs, and finding spanning structures in graphs/hypergraphs through absorption techniques.

More broadly, I'm interested in combinatorics, graph theory, algorithms, and computational complexity.

In my free time I love reading, playing chess, and competitive programming. In the last years I have been involved in the organization of the Catalan Olympiad in Informatics (oiCat).