Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
List of Talks given in 2005-06
| Wednesday, September 7 | Cilanne Boulet, Cornell University A combinatorial proof of the Rogers-Ramanujan and Schur identities |
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| Wednesday, September 21 | Bridget Tenner, MIT Reduced decompositions and permutation patterns |
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| Wednesday, September 28 | Louis Billera, Cornell University Identities on ribbon Schur functions and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients |
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| Wednesday, October 5 | Helge Tverberg, University of Bergen Glimpses of an ongoing long story, starting with Radon's theorem |
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| Thursday, October 6 | Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky Counting pattern avoiding permutations via integral operators |
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| Wednesday, October 19 | Etienne Rassart, Cornell University A chamber complex for Kostka numbers |
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| Wednesday, October 26 | Drew Armstrong, Cornell University Partial orders on Coxeter groups |
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| Wednesday, November 2 | Franco Saliola, Cornell University Left regular bands in combinatorics |
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| Wednesday, November 16 | Christopher Hanusa, Binghamton University A Gessel-Viennot-type method for counting disjoint unions of cycles in a graph |
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| Wednesday, January 25 | Danh N. Tran, On Kruskal-Katona type theorems for integer vectors |
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| Wednesday, February 8 | Megan Owen, Cornell University Combinatorics in information theory |
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| Wednesday, February 15 | Todd Kemp, Cornell University Partitions, central limit theorems, and free probability |
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| Wednesday, February 22 | Todd Kemp, Cornell University Free cumulants and the lattice of non-crossing partitions |
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| Wednesday, March 1 | Kenneth Brown, Cornell University Buildings as metric spaces |
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| Wednesday, March 8 | Kristin Camenga, Cornell University Complexes with alternating angle sums half the Euler characteristic |
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| Wednesday, March 15 | Louis Billera, Cornell University A quasisymmetric function for matroids |
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| Wednesday, March 29 | Francesco Brenti, University of Rome Diamonds, Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, and Hecke algebra representations |
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| Wednesday, April 5 | Isabella Novik, University of Washington How neighborly can a centrally symmetric polytope be? |
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| Wednesday, April 12 | Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia The combinatorics of the strong factorization conjecture for toric varieties |
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| Wednesday, April 19 | Stephanie van Willigenburg, University of British Columbia Coincidences amongst skew Schur functions |
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| Wednesday, April 26 | Thomas Zaslavsky, SUNY Binghamton The algebraic foundation of weak Tutte functions |
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| Wednesday, May 3 | Louis Billera, Cornell University Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and the cd-index |