Outline:

1. Basic concepts of combinatorics
2. Extremal set theory
3. Finite geometry
4. Enumeration under group action
5. Special topics and research problems

Objective:

In the course, we will introduce some special topics and research problems in combinatorics.

Textbook:

1. P. J. Cameron, Combinatorics: Topics, techniques, Algorithm, Cambridge, 1998.
2. B. Bolloás, Combinatorics, Cambridge , 1986.
3. J. H. von Lint and R. M. Wilson, A course in Combinatorics, Cambridge, 1992.