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

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).

Fall 2009

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

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