Date	Speaker	Title (links lead to abstracts)
January 4	-	Organization & Planning
January 11	Florian Block	Oriented Matroids, Bergman Complexes and Nested Sets
January 18	Nina White	A Short Introduction to Toric Varieties
January 25	Luis Serrano	Combinatorial Aspects of Grassmannians and Schubert Cells
February 1	Kelli Talaska	Matroid Strata, Grassmannians, and Total Positivity
February 8	Kelli Talaska	Planar Networks and the Totally Nonnegative Grassmannian
February 15	Austin Shapiro	Basics of Polytopes I
February 22	Ellen Veomett	Basics of Polytopes II
March 1	No meeting	"Spring" Break
March 8	Luis Serrano	Gale Diagrams I
March 15	Alan Stapledon	Gale Duality
March 22	Florian Block	Secondary Polytopes I
March 29	Florian Block	Secondary Polytopes II
April 5	Ellen Veomett	Polytopes and f-vectors
April 12	Alan Stapledon	Ehrhart functions and h-vectors