The University of Michigan Student Combinatorics Seminar |
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During the Fall 2009 semester, the Student Combinatorics Seminar will run on Mondays, from 4-5pm in 3866 East Hall. This page is maintained by Luis Serrano and Florian Block. If you would like to be added to the mailing list or to give a talk, please email one of us (lserrano@umich, blockf@umich).
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title (links lead to abstracts) |
| September 7 | No meeting |
Labor day | |
| September 14 | Planning and Cookies cookies by Luis | ||
| September 21 | Austin Shapiro cookies by Austin |
U. Michigan | Introduction to Convex Polytopes |
| September 28 | Brian Mann cookies by Luis |
U. Michigan | Tropical Curves |
| October 5 | Luis Serrano cookies by Brian |
U. Michigan | Symmetric functions and how they appear everywhere |
| October 12 | Max Glick Cookies by Austin |
U. Michigan | The cohomology of the Grassmannian |
| October 19 | No meeting |
Fall break | |
| October 26 | Martha Yip Cookies by Andrew |
U. Wisconsin, Madison | A Littlewood-Richardson rule for Macdonald polynomials |
| November 2 | Pavlo Pylyavskyy Cookies by Max |
U. Michigan | Total positivity in loop groups |
| November 9 | Charlie Buehrle Cookies by Kevin |
Lehigh University | A new construction of Kazhdan-Lusztig's representations of the Hecke algebra |
| November 16 | Andrew Kiluk Cookies by Luis |
U. Michigan | Hurwitz numbers and Cut-Join |
| November 23 | No meeting |
Thanksgiving | |
| November 30 | Michael Chmutov |
U. Michigan | Khovanov Cohomology of Knots |
| December 7 | No meeting |