Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
 Fall 2010
Mondays 2:30 PM to 3:30 in Malott 206

Topics of interest are discrete geometry and algebraic combinatorics, including the geometry and combinatorics of polyhedra, enumeration in partially ordered sets and triangulations, matroid theory, the theory of rigid and flexible frameworks, tilings, packing, and graph theory.

This seminar is run jointly by  Bob Connelly (connelly@math.cornell.edu) and Ed Swartz (ebs@math.cornell.edu). Please feel free to suggest speakers or volunteer to speak.

For the schedule in 2010-2011 see below. To see lists of earlier talks in this series, click here.

Schedule

8/30/10 Peter McNamara, Bucknell University The Schur-Positivity Poset
9/13 Ed Swartz, Cornell University Thirty years and counting
9/20 Karola Mészáros, MIT Triangulations of root polytopes and Kirillov's conjectures
9/27 Florian Block, U. of Michigan Computing note polynomials for plane curves
10/4 John Shareshian, Washington University Intervals in subgroup lattices of finite groups
10/18 Patricia Hersh, N.C. State and Cornell  The q=-1 phenomenon via homology concentration
11/01 Saúl Blanco, Cornell University The shortest path poset of Bruhat intervals
11/03 Ben Webster, U. of Oregon
WED. 2:30		 Counting points and combinatorics
11/08 Cristian Lenart, University at Albany, SUNY Combinatorial formulas for Macdonald polynomials and applications
11/15 Alexy Glazyrin, U. of Texas at Brownsville Lower bounds for the cube simplexity
11/22 Rebecca Swanson, Neb. Wesleyan U. Relationship between shellability and vertex decomposability
11/29 Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State
 Algebra, geometry and dynamics of the pentagram map
12/8
Wed. 4-5 in
Malott 205
 Andras Bezdek, Auburn U.
WED. 4:00
 Unavoidable crossings in a thinnest covering of the plane and on the sphere.










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Last updated: December 9, 2010