This semester the seminar is run jointly by Marcelo Aguiar, Karola Mészáros and Ed Swartz. Please feel free to suggest speakers or volunteer to speak.
Our Founding Fathers are Lou Billera and Bob Connelly.
Sep 2 | Labor day | |
Sep 9 | Lionel Levine, Cornell University | CoEulerian Graphs |
Sep 16 | No talk | |
Sep 23 | Vasu Tewari, University of Pennsylvania | Divided symmetrization, Schubert polynomials and quasisymmetric functions |
Sep 30 | Nathaniel Bottman, University of Southern California | 2-associahedra |
Friday, Oct 11 | Alex Fink, Queen Mary University of London | Matrix orbit closures and their classes |
Oct 14 | Fall break | |
Friday, Oct 18, Malott 230 | Herman Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | A discussion about matroids |
Oct 21 | No talk | |
Oct 28 | Franco Saliola, UQAM | Combinatorial topology and homological invariants of monoid algebras arising in algebraic combinatorics |
Nov 4 | No talk | |
Nov 11 | Ayah Almousa, Cornell University | Polarizations of Powers of the Maximal Ideal in a Polynomial Ring |
Nov 18 | Stefan Forcey, University of Akron | Galois connections for phylogenetic networks and their polytopes |
Friday, Nov 22, Malott 230 | John Bowers, James Madison University | |
Nov 25 | Benjamin Schröeter, Binghamton University | Correlation bounds of fields and matroids |
Thursday, Dec 5, Malott 206 | Thomas Fernique, Université Paris-Nord | Compact packings of spheres |
Friday, Dec 6, 3:30 pm, Malott 206 | Steven Gortler, Harvard University | Generic and unlabeled rigidity |
For the schedule of previous talks in this seminar: previous years, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019.