Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar

List of Talks given in 2007-08

Monday, August 27   Eran Nevo, Cornell University
Stresses, minors, embeddability and Colin de Verdière's parameter for graphs
Monday, September 10   Kurt Luoto, University of Washington, Seattle
A matroid-friendly basis for quasisymmetric functions
Wednesday, September 19   Richard Shore, Cornell University
Complexity in countable combinatorics I
Monday, September 24   Richard Shore, Cornell University
Complexity of countable combinatorics II
Monday, October 1   Jay Schweig, Cornell University
h-vectors of matroid complexes
Monday, October 15   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
Topological finiteness and edge counting
Monday, October 29   Franco Saliola, Université du Québec à Montréal
A geometric approach to Christoffel words
Tuesday, November 6   Caspar Schwabe, Kurashiki University of Science and Art
Kinematic models for the performing arts?
Monday, November 26   Uli Wagner, ETH Zurich
h-matrices levels in arrangements
Monday, January 21   Martina Kubitzke, University of Marburg
The Lefschetz property for barycentric subdivisions of shellable complexes
Monday, February 11   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
The Charney-Davis conjecture
Monday, February 11   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
The Charney-Davis conjecture
Monday, February 18   Megan Owen, Cornell University
Practical distance computation in the space of phylogenetic trees
Monday, March 3   Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Optimizing disk configurations
Monday, March 10   Volkmar Welker, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Golod rings and complements of coordinate subspace arrangements
Monday, April 7   Eran Nevo, Cornell University
A characterization of simplicial polytopes withg2 = 1
Monday, April 14   Louis Billera, Cornell University
The complete cd-index of a Bruhat interval
Monday, April 21   Saúl Blanco, Cornell University
Chains in the Bruhat graph
Monday, April 28   Jean-Marc Schlenker, University of Ottawa
Higher Schläfli formulas