University of Minnesota Student Combinatorics Seminar

	In late July 2004, an elite group of math commandoes infiltrated the combinatorics group at the University of Minnesota and, in a brief but bloody battle, wrested control of the Student Combinatorics Seminar from John Hall and awarded it to Dan Drake, the founder and leader of their heretofore unknown guerilla movement.
	Having risen up and seized the means of production, the movement seeks to reeducate the populace and promote their radical views on combinatorics. To this end, graduate student speakers are encouraged to give introductory talks on a combinatorial subject of their choosing.
	If you'd like to know more about this seminar, or if you're interested in speaking, please email Comrade Drake.
	The "grownup" combinatorics seminar: http://www.math.umn.edu/~stanton/seminar.html

In Fall 2005, the student combinatorics seminar will meet on Fridays at 1:25 in Vincent 203A.

Here is a list of currently-scheduled speakers and titles.

List of talks from previous semesters

Potential topics for future talks: non-negative matrices, pattern avoidance in permutations, Schubert polynomials, non-commutative symmetric functions, permutation statistics, jeu de taquin, statistical mechanics, combinatorial representation theory, domino tableaux, recent developments in rook polynomials ( math.CO/0407004 and math.CO/0407007), Proper partitions of a polygon and k-Catalan numbers (math.CO/0407280), designs (van Lint & Wilson), codes (van Lint & Wilson). And here are yet more topics! You can also look at a syllabus from a class taught by Alex Yong. There are lots of papers there that could spark a talk or two.

Citations such as "math.CO/0407280" are references to arXiv.org preprints. The easiest way to find them is to use Google. Or you can use the arXiv's search interface and search in the "number" field.

Our hero, Gian-Che Rotavara:

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