s University of Minnesota Combinatorics Seminar

University of Minnesota Combinatorics Seminar
2009-2010: Friday 3:35-4:25 in 570 Vincent Hall

date speaker affiliation title (possibly click for an abstract)
September 11
No seminar -- too early
September 18
Dennis Stanton Univ. of Minnesota Linearization formulas for orthogonal polynomials
September 25
Vic Reiner Univ. of Minnesota The diameter problem for reduced words and galleries
October 2
Adam Goyt Minnesota State - Moorhead Packing Patterns in Set Partitions
October 9
Jason Morton Stanford/Penn State Holographic algorithms without matchgates
October 16
Aminul Huq Univ. of Minnesota - Rochester Generalized Chung-Feller Theorems for lattice paths
October 23
Lauren Williams Univ. of California - Berkeley Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process and Askey-Wilson polynomials
October 30
Alex Woo St. Olaf College Explicit Grobner bases for Schubert slices
November 6
Eric Sommers U. Mass - Amherst A survey of Robinson-Schensted algorithms in types B/C and their connections to Lie theory
November 13
Jia Huang Univ. of Minnesota Invariant theory of finite sparse linear groups
November 20
Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine Univ. of Minnesota An identity related to the quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of n points in the complex plane
November 27
No seminar -- Thanksgiving break
December 4
Gregg Musiker MIT Positivity results for cluster algebras arising from surfaces
December 11
Pavlo Pylyavskyy Univ. of Michigan Total positivity in loop groups: Chevalley generators
December 18
No seminar -- final exams

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