Student Combinatorics Seminar

Fridays 2:30-3:20

Vincent Hall 570


  • If you would like more information about this seminar or if you are interested in speaking, please contact me at maxwell@math.umn.edu.
  • University of Minnesota Combinatorics Seminar

    Spring 2007 Schedule


    Date

    Speaker

    Title

    January 19th

    No Seminar

    (First week of class)

    January 26th

    Organizational Meeting


    February 2nd

    No Seminar


    February 9th

    Jennifer Galovich

    Odometerized statistics

    February 16th

    Sen-Peng Eu

    Schroder numbers and paths

    February 23rd

    Sangwook Kim

    cd-indices of polytopes

    March 2nd

    Pat Byrnes

    What is a greedoid?

    March 9th

    Andy Berget

    Delta operators and their basic polynomials

    March 16th

    No Seminar

    (Spring Break)

    March 23rd

    Jon Peterson

    An introduction to spectral analysis on groups

    March 30th

    Alex Miller

    Differential posets

    April 6th

    Ning Jia

    Two descriptions of Schubert polynomials

    April 13th

    No Seminar


    April 20th

    No Seminar

    (Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference)

    April 27th

    Dumitru Stamate

    Properties of posets reflected by their incidence algebra

    May 4th

    Molly Maxwell

    TBA

    May 11th

    No Seminar

    (Finals)


    Fall 2006 Schedule


    Date

    Speaker

    Title

    September 8th

    No Seminar

    (First week of class)

    September 15th

    Organizational Meeting


    September 22nd

    Brendon

    Kazhdan-Lusztig representations and the Robinson-Schensted correspondence

    September 29th

    Jessica

    Alternating sign matrices--Permutation, poset (and perhaps polytope) perspectives

    October 6th

    Pat

    P and NP for combinatorial problems

    October 13th

    Mike

    Why Latin squares are important

    October 20th

    No Seminar


    October 27th

    Jon

    Jack Functions: A generalization of Schur functions

    November 3rd

    David

    The isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups

    November 10th

    Pat

    The combinatorics of Sudoku
    Note: The seminar will be held in Vincent 203A this week.

    November 17th

    Andy

    Matroid colorings

    November 24th

    No Seminar

    (Thanksgiving break)

    December 1st

    No Seminar


    December 8th

    No Seminar


    December 15th

    No Seminar

    (Finals)


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