The University of Michigan Student Combinatorics Seminar |
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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).
| 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 |