Schedule of Activities
Friday, June 13, 2008
| 9:30 AM | Anders Björner, KTH Mixed connectivity, polytope boundaries, and matroid basis graphs |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee |
| 10:45 AM | Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University |
| 11:30 AM | Carly Klivans, University of Chicago Cubical complexes and a cellular matrix tree theorem |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:45 PM | Catherine Stenson, Juniata College Line shelling zonotopes of polytopes |
| 2:30 PM | Kristin Camenga, Houghton College Relations on solid angles of low-dimensional polytopes |
| 3:00 PM | Coffee |
| 3:30 PM | Sam Hsiao, Bard College The cone of flag f-vectors of nonpure posets |
| 4:15 PM | Stephanie van Willigenburg, University of British Columbia Quasisymmetric Schur functions |
| 5:30 PM | Reception at the A.D. White House (right next to the Cornell Mathematics Department) |
Saturday, June 14, 2008
| 9:30 AM | Kathryn Nyman, Loyola University Chicago Two-batch liar games on a general bounded channel |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee |
| 10:45 AM | Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky Toric arrangements |
| 11:30 AM | Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick Oriented interval greedoids |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:45 PM | Margaret Readdy, University of Kentucky The Möbius function of partitions with restricted block sizes |
| 2:30 PM | Richard Stanley, MIT Partition statistics with respect to Plancherel measure |
| 3:00 PM | Coffee |
| 3:30 PM | Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor An asymptotic estimate for the number of contingency tables |
| 4:15 PM | Shmuel Onn, Technion Nonlinear discrete optimization |
| 7:00 PM | Banquet at ZaZa's Cucina |
Sunday, June 15, 2008
| 9:00 AM | Gábor Hetyei, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Links we almost missed between Delannoy numbers and Legendre polynomials |
| 9:45 AM | Drew Armstrong, University of Minnesota The sorting order on a Coxeter group |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee |
| 10:45 AM | Francesco Brenti, University of Rome Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and the complete cd-index |
| 11:30 AM | Louis Billera, Cornell University |