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