Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
List of Talks given in 2006-07
| Wednesday, August 30 | Veit Elser, Cornell University An iterated map that solves hard problems |
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| Tuesday, September 5 | Igor Pak, MIT Inflating polyhedral surfaces |
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| Wednesday, September 13 | Brant Jones, University of Washington Embedded factor patterns and Deodhar's algorithm for Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials |
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| Wednesday, September 27 | Edward Swartz, Cornell University The coloring complex |
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| Tuesday, October 3 | Gil Kalai, Hebrew University and Yale University Harmonic analysis of Boolean functions |
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| Wednesday, October 11 | Robert Connelly, Cornell University Packing of ellipses and ellipsoids - a model for granular material |
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| Wednesday, October 18 | Tom Zaslavsky, Binghamton University Topological hyperplanes |
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| Wednesday, October 25 | Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute What's new in dimension two? |
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| Wednesday, November 1 | Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College Escher's combinatorial patterns and their aftermath |
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| Tuesday, November 14 | Greg Kuperberg, University of California at Davis From the Mahler conjecture to Gauss linking forms |
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| Wednesday, November 15 | Tara Holm, Cornell University The combinatorial structure of moment polytopes |
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| Wednesday, November 29 | Ileana Streinu, Smith College Enumerating planar minimally rigid graphs |
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| Wednesday, January 24 | Victor Alexandrov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Cornell University Minkowski-type and A. D. Alexandrov-type theorems for hedgehogs |
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| Wednesday, January 31 | Robert Connelly, Cornell University Attaching adornments to expanding chains |
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| Wednesday, February 7 | Tom Zaslavsky, Binghamton University A lattice point counting problem with weird gain graphs |
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| Wednesday, February 28 | David Speyer, University of Michigan Decompositions of matroid polytopes and a new matroid invariant |
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| Wednesday, March 7 | I. Sabitov, Moscow State University Some results on infinitesimal and continuous rigidity of surfaces and polyhedra |
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| Wednesday, March 14 | Megan Owen, Cornell University Computing the distance between phylogenetic trees |
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| Wednesday, March 28 | Caroline Klivans, University of Chicago A simplicial matrix tree theorem |
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| Wednesday, March 28 | Margaret Readdy, University of Kentucky Affine and toric hyperplane arrangements |
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| Wednesday, March 28 | Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky Eulerian binomial and Sheffer posets |
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| Wednesday, April 11 | Joe Mitchell, Stony Brook University Improved approximation algorithms for TSP with neighborhoods and related geometric network optimization problems |
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| Monday, April 16 | Walter Whiteley and Wendy Finbow-Sing, York University and St. Mary’s University and York Generic rigidity of spheres with holes and blocks, with applications |
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| Wednesday, April 18 | Sonja Cukic, Binghamton University Bier spheres and other shellable simplicial spheres |
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| Wednesday, April 25 | David Gale, University of California at Berkeley Topological games at Princeton, a mathematical memoir |
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| Wednesday, May 2 | Dylan Thurston, Columbia University Characterizing generic global rigidity of graphs |