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

During the Fall 2010 semester, the Student Combinatorics Seminar will run on Tuesdays, from 5-6pm in 3866 East Hall. This page is maintained by Florian Block, Max Glick and Jeremy West. If you would like to be added to the mailing list or to give a talk, please email one of us (blockf@umich, maxglick@umich, jeremymw@umich).

Winter 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title (links lead to abstracts)
September 13 -
cookies by Florian
Planning and Cookies
September 17
(note special time)
Austin Shapiro
cookies by Chris
U. Michigan Permanents
September 28 Jeremy West
cookies by Will
U. Michigan Coexeter Groups in Combinatorics
October 5 Michael Chmutov
cookies by Austin
U. Michigan Hecke Algebras
October 12 Max Glick
cookies by Jeremy
U. Michigan Cluster Algebras
October 19 No seminar - Fall Break
October 26 Kevin Carde
cookies by Florian
U. Michigan The Laurent Phenomenon
November 2 Five Combinatorialists
cookies by David
U. Michigan Bring your work to work day!
November 9 David Benson-Putnins
cookies by Yi
U. Michigan Counting Points in Space
November 16
4:10 - 5:00PM
(note special time)
Florian Block
cookies by Max
U. Michigan Tropical curves and why they are useful
November 23 Yi Su
cookies by Michael
U. Michigan Reconstruction of graph (regular matroid) given a lattice of integer flows with some inner product structure
November 30 Seung Jin Lee
cookies by Will
U. Michigan The bound for the number of faces of a centrally symmetric polytope
December 7 Max Glick
cookies by Austin
U. Michigan The pentagram map
December 14

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