The University of Michigan Student Combinatorics Seminar
Mondays, 4:10-5:00pm, 3866 East Hall

During the Fall 2008 semester, the Student Combinatorics Seminar will run on Mondays, from 4-5pm in 3866 East Hall. This page is maintained by Kelli Talaska and Florian Block. If you would like to be added to the mailing list or to give a talk, please email one of us (kellicar@umich, blockf@umich).

Fall 2008

Date Speaker Title (links lead to abstracts)
September 4 -
cookies by Florian
Planning and Cookies
September 11 Kelli Talaska
cookies by Luis
A generalization of Lindstrom's Lemma, via planar networks and the real Grassmannian
September 15 Paul Johnson
cookies by Kelli
Hurwitz numbers and piecewise polynomiality
September 22 Luis Serrano
cookies by Paul
Horn Conjecture I
September 29 Austin Shapiro
cookies by Austin
Horn Conjecture II
October 6 -
No meeting
October 13 Florian Block
cookies by Kelli
Introduction to Hilbert Schemes of Points
October 20 -- No meeting (fall break)
October 27 Ryan Kinser
cookies by Alan
n!-conjecture and Macdonald positivity
November 3 Brian Jurgelevicz
cookies by Alan
Hall-Littlewood polynomials and the classical Hall algebra
November 10 Kelli Talaska
cookies by Florian
An introduction to cluster algebras
November 17 Jiarui Fei
cookies by Luis
Quiver representations and cluster algebras
November 24 Kelli Talaska
cookies by Kelli
Total positivity and cluster algebras
December 1 Ajinkya More
cookies by Ryan
Groebner Bases and Integer Programming
December 8 Alan Stapledon
cookies by Florian
Toric Pre-varieties and Matroids

Past semesters:
Winter 2008   Fall 2007   Winter 2007   Fall 2006