Date	Speaker	Title (links lead to abstracts)
September 6	-	Planning and Introduction to Cookies
September 13	Florian Block	Hidden Markov Models, Newton Polytopes, Tropical Math and Google (cookies by Austin)
September 20	Kelli Talaska	Young Tableaux and the Littlewood-Richardson Rule
September 27	Luis Serrano	Schubert Polynomials (cookies by Nina)
October 4	Pavlo Pylyavskyy	Combinatorial Hopf algebras and K-homology of Grassmanians (cookies by Luis)
October 11	Florian Block	Introduction to Tropical Geometry (cookies by Paul)
October 18	Dave Anderson	Tropical linear spaces (cookies by Florian)
October 25	Hannah Markwig	Lifting points in a tropical variety (cookies by Kelli)
November 1	Paul Johnson	Monomial ideals and simplicial complexes
November 8	Austin Shapiro	Monomial Ideals II
November 15	Kelli Talaska	Tutte's polynomial
November 22	-	Thanksgiving Break
November 29	Ryan Kinser	Numerical invariants of representations of graphs (quiver representations) (cookies by Paul)
December 6	Paul Johnson	Double Hurwitz Numbers (cookies by ??)
December 13	-	Exams