Talks previously given in the Student Combinatorics Seminar

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Date Speaker Topic
Fall 2005
23 September Dan Drake The combinatorics of Hermite polynomials and associated Hermite polynomials
30 September Mike Weimerskirsch Ordinal numbers and combinatorial games
7 October Molly Maxwell Higher dimensional spanning trees
14 October Mark Skandera warmup for his talk in the grownup seminar: "On the nonnegativity properties of the dual canonical basis"
21 October Muge Taskin Properties of four partial orders on standard Young tableaux
28 October Andy Berget Eigenvalues of graphs
4 November Brendan Rhoades Immanants and the Kazhdan-Lusztig basis
11 November Steven Damelin warm-up for his talk in the grownup seminar: "On the number of linearly independent vectors over a finite field of prime order"
18 November Rob Edman bicycles in graphs, whatever those are
25 November no seminar; Thanksgiving
2 December problem session
9 December Pat Byrnes TBA
Spring 2005 28 January combinatorics problem session 4 February Sangwook Kim Discrete Morse theory 11 February John Hall MacDonald polynomials 18 February combinatorics problem session 25 February Molly Maxwell Squaring the Square and Self-Dual Graphs 4 March Rob Edman Algorithmically computing graph isomorphisms 18 March - No seminar, spring break 25 March Pat Byrnes Algorithms for finding stable marriages 1 April Mike Weimerskirch Graph pebbling 22 April combinatorics problem session Fall 2004 1 October Dan Drake Combinatorial designs and orthogonal polynomials 8 October Ning Jia Ribbon tableaux 15 October John Hall Matroids 22 October Molly Maxwell Coding theory 29 October Muge Taskin Coxeter groups 5 November Muge Taskin Coxeter groups, part II 12 November Pat Byrnes Rook polynomials 19 November no one yet! your favorite topic here 26 November Thanksgiving, no seminar 3 December Murat Mut Noncommutative symmetric functions

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