date	speaker	affiliation	title (possibly click for an abstract)
Fall Semester
September 10	Patricia Hersh	N. Carolina State Univ./Cornell Univ.	The "q=-1" phenomenon via homology concentration
September 17	No seminar-- Willard Miller conference starts
September 24	Jia Huang	Univ. of Minnesota	0-Hecke algebras acting on flags and coinvariants
October 1	Vic Reiner	Univ. of Minnesota	P-partitions revisited
October 8	Luke Oeding	Univ. of Florence	Defining equations of orbit closures in skew symmetric tensors
October 15	Ricky Liu	Univ. of Minnesota	Matching polytopes and Specht modules
October 22	Jonah Blasiak	Univ. of Michigan	Nonstandard Hecke algebra for the Kronecker problem
October 29	June Huh	Univ. of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign	Milnor numbers of projective hypersurfaces and the chromatic polynomial of graphs
November 5	Kenji Kashiwabara	Univ. of Tokyo	Closure operators and extreme-point operators
November 12	Hoda Bidkhori	N. Carolina State Univ.	Lattice Path Matroid Polytopes
November 19	Luis Serrano	Univ. du Quebec a Montreal	Maximal fillings of moon polyominoes, simplicial complexes, and Schubert polynomials
November 26	No seminar-- Thanksgiving
December 3	Florian Block	Univ. of Michigan	Computing Node Polynomials for Plane Curves
December 10	Jang Soo Kim	Univ. of Minnesota	Touchard-Riordan formulas, T-fractions, and Jacobi's triple product identity
December 17	No seminar -- final exams
Spring Semester
January 21	No seminar-- first week of classes
Monday, January 24 Special seminar at 11:15am in VinH20	Karola Mészáros	MIT	Triangulations of root polytopes and Kirillov's conjectures
January 28	Vic Reiner	Univ. of Minnesota	Spectra of symmetrized shuffling operators
February 4	Jang Soo Kim	Univ. of Minnesota	On enumeration formulas for weighted Motzkin paths
February 11	Jia Huang	Univ. of Minnesota	Counting fixed points for torus actions on flags
February 18	Gregg Musiker	Univ. of Minnesota	The cyclotomic polynomial topologically
February 25	Alex Fink	North Carolina State Univ.	Valuative matroid invariants and the Grassmannian
March 4	Peter Webb	Univ. of Minnesota	Sets with a category action
March 11	Ricky Liu	Univ. of Minnesota	Matrices with restricted entries over finite fields
March 18	No seminar-- spring break
March 25	David Perkinson	Reed College	Some algebraic geometry of sandpiles
April 1	Pavlo Pylyavskyy	Univ. of Minnesota	The inverse problem in cylindrical electrical networks
April 8	Vic Reiner	Univ. of Minnesota	A new twisted Gelfand pair from reflection groups
April 15	Nathan Williams	Univ. of Minnesota	Promotion and Rowmotion
April 22	Vivien Ripoll	Univ. du Quebec a Montreal	Factorisations of a Coxeter element and discriminant of a reflection group
April 29	Christian Stump	Univ. du Quebec a Montreal	A uniform bijection between nonnesting and noncrossing partitions
May 6	No seminar
May 13	No seminar-- final exams
Summer seminars 2011
Tuesday, Aug 23 12:20pm, VinH 364	Carsten Lange	FU-Berlin	Minkowski decompositions of associahedra