Cornell Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Spring 2016
Mondays 2:30-3:30 pm 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, graph theory, and combinatorial Hopf algebras.

This semester the seminar is run jointly by Marcelo Aguiar and Karola Mészáros. Please feel free to suggest speakers or volunteer to speak.

Our Founding Fathers are Lou Billera and Bob Connelly.

 

1/25/2016 Daniel Cohen (Louisiana State) Chen ranks and resonance
2/1/2016 No talk  
2/8/2016 John Pike (Cornell) Random Walks on Abelian Sandpiles
2/15/2016 February break  
2/22/2016 Michael Chmutov (University of Minnesota) Matrix Ball Construction for affine Robinson-Schensted Correspondence
2/29/2016 Cornel Sultan (Virginia Tech) Decoupling Approximation Design
3/7/2016 Bruno Benedetti (University of Miami) Regularity of Gorenstein line arrangements
3/14/2016 Sara Billey (University of Washington) Enumeration of Parabolic Double Cosets for Coxeter Groups
3/21/2016 Tamas Kalman (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Hypergraph polynomials
3/28/2016 Spring break  
4/4/2016    
4/11/2016 Peter McNamara (Bucknell) The structure of the consecutive pattern poset
4/18/2016 Ricky Liu (North Carolina State) Positive expressions for skew divided difference operators
4/25/2016 Anastasia Chavez (UC Berkeley) The Dehn-Sommerville relations and the Catalan matroid
5/2/2016  
5/9/2016    

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.

Cornell Math Department.