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.
1/19/2015 | Martin Luther King Day | |
1/26/2015 | Ernest Chong (Cornell University) | Kruskal-Katona-type theorems |
2/2/2015 | Ivan Izmestiev (Freie Universität Berlin) | Geometric Pachner moves, rigidity of non-convex polyhedra, and polytopality of simplicial spheres |
2/9/2015 | ||
2/16/2015 | February break | |
2/23/2015 | Karola Mészáros (Cornell University) | Subword complexes via triangulations of root polytopes |
2/26/2015 | Karim Adiprasito (Hebrew University) | Colloquium Thursday at 4:00 |
3/9/2015 | ||
3/16/2015 | Ed Swartz (Cornell University) | Lower bound theorems for manifolds with boundary |
3/23/2015 | Farbod Shokrieh (Cornell University) | Divisors on tropical curves and the Matrix-Tree Theorem |
3/30/2015 | Spring break | |
4/6/2015 | ||
4/13/2015 | Chi Ho Yuen (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Geometric Bijections Between Spanning Trees and Break Divisors |
4/20/2015 | Eric Katz (University of Waterloo) | Hodge theory in combinatorics |
4/27/2015 | James Propp (UMass Lowell) | A derandomized percolation explorer and a derandomized Polya urn model |
5/4/2015 | Florian Frick (Technische Universität Berlin) | From local combinatorics to geometry and topology of manifold triangulations |
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.