BIRS Workshop — Extremal Graphs arising from Designs and Configurations

The influence of networks in our daily life is swiftly increasing. Examples of physical networks are those that involve passenger transfers or simply the connections between different computers to send information. On the other hand, virtually, we find social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram and so on, which are widely used and known by a high percentage of the world's population. Currently, the construction of networks that optimize certain real hypotheses, is a vast area that provides mathematical problems whose answers solve real situations.