Fall 2006

Date Speaker Title (links lead to abstracts)
September 7 - Organization & Planning
September 14 Dave Anderson Cylindric tableaux and transversality in (quantum) Schubert calculus
September 21 Mark Conger Refined Eulerian Numbers
September 28 Ellen Veomett A Semidefinite Approximation of the Traveling Salesman Polytope
October 5 Kelli Carlson A Crash Course in Root Systems and Coxeter Groups, Part I
October 12 Aubrey da Cunha A Crash Course in Root Systems and Coxeter Groups, Part II
October 19 Florian Block Combinatorics of Associahedra
October 26 Austin Shapiro Mutations and Generalized Associahedra
November 2 Nina White An Introduction to Cluster Algebras
November 9 Dave Anderson Cluster Algebras and Generalized Associahedra
(Note: We will meet in 3088 EH)
November 16 Kelli Carlson Cluster Algebras and Double Wiring Diagrams
November 23 No meeting Thanksgiving
November 30 Ryan Kinser Cluster Algebras and Quiver Representations
December 7 Austin Shapiro Semiprimary Lattices and the Schensted Correspondence