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.
| Jan 29 | Florian Frick, Cornell University | Some problems I learned about while at MSRI |
| Feb 5 | ||
| Feb 12 | ||
| Feb 19 | February break | |
| Feb 26 | Günter Rote, Freie Universität Berlin | Minimal Dominating Sets in Trees: Counting, Enumeration, and Extremal Results |
| Mar 5 | Laura Anderson, Binghamton University | Matroids and Grassmannians over hyperfields |
| Mar 12 | Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota | Cyclic descents |
| Mar 15 | Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota | Oliver Club |
| Mar 19 | Greta Panova, University of Pennsylvania | Hook formulas for skew shapes |
| Mar 26 | Farbod Shokrieh, Cornell University | Effective divisor classes on graphs |
| Apr 2 | Spring break | |
| Apr 9 | Viktor Kiss, Cornell University | The Devil's staircase phenomenon for random graphs and chip-firing on graphons |
| Apr 16 | Eugene Gorsky, University of California, Davis | Knot invariants and generalized q,t-Catalan numbers |
| Apr 23 | Philippe Nadeau, Université Lyon 1 | Dual braid monoids, Koszul algebras, and clusters |
| Apr 30 | Alex Yong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Reduced word enumeration, complexity and randomization |
| May 7 | Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University | Posets arising as 1-skeleta of simple polytopes, the nonrevisiting path conjecture, and poset topology |
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, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017.