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

During the Winter 2010 semester, the Student Combinatorics Seminar will run on Mondays, from 4-5pm in 3866 East Hall. This page is maintained by Florian Block and Luis Serrano. If you would like to be added to the mailing list or to give a talk, please email one of us (blockf@umich, lserrano@umich).

Winter 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Title (links lead to abstracts)
January 11 -
cookies by Florian and Kevin
Planning and Cookies
January 18 No meeting - MLK Day
January 25 Kelli Talaska
Cookies by Jeremy
U. Michigan Alternating sign matrices, lattice models, and more!
February 1 Max Glick
Cookies by Luis
U. Michigan More Alternating Sign Matrices
February 8 Jeremy West
Cookies by David
U. Michigan Basis Covers of Subspace Arrangements
February 15 Luis Serrano
Cookies by Yi
U. Michigan The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon
February 22 Seven combinatorialists
Cookies by Austin
U. Michigan Bring your work to work day!
March 1 No meeting - Spring Break
March 8 Austin Shapiro
Cookies by Florian
U. Michigan The Probabilistic Method Part 1
March 15 Benjamin Iriarte
Cookies by Luis
San Francisco State U. Characterizing m-dissimilarity vectors of trees
March 22 Maria Monks
Cookies by Jeremy
MIT From Dyson's rank to false theta functions: the story of a partition congruence identity
March 29 Justin Lambright
Cookies by Kelli
Lehigh U. A Combinatorial Interpretation for Computations in the Quantum Polynomial Ring
April 5 David Benson-Putnins
Cookies by Yi
U. Michigan The Probabilistic Method Part 2
April 12 Florian Block
Cookies by David
U. Michigan Computing Node Polynomials
April 19 No meeting
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