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.
| Aug 31 | José Samper (University of Washington) | Relaxations of the matroid axioms: h-vectors |
| Sep 7 | Labor Day | |
| Sep 14 | Thomas Lam (University of Michigan) | Grassmann polytopes? |
| Sep 21 | ||
| Sep 28 | Jean-Baptiste Priez (Paris Sud) | Polynomial realizations of Hopf algebras |
| Oct 5 | ||
| Oct 12 | Fall break | |
| Oct 19 | ||
| Oct 26 | Nath Thiem (University of Colorado) | A representation theoretic approach to transportation polytopes |
| Nov 2 | Evgeny Smirnov (HSE, National Research University, Moscow) | Spherical double flag varieties |
| Nov 9 | ||
| Nov 16 | Bob Connelly (Cornell) | Universal Rigidity |
| Nov 23 | Farbod Shokrieh (Cornell) | Matroids and their Jacobians |
| Nov 30 | Igors Gorbovickis (University of Toronto) | The central set and its application to the Kneser-Poulsen conjecture |
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.