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

During the Winter 2011 semester, the Student Combinatorics Seminar will run on Mondays, from 4-5pm 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 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title (links lead to abstracts)
January 10 -
cookies by Max 		Planning and Cookies
January 17
No seminar - MLK Day
January 24 Kevin Carde
Cookies by Florian 		U. Michigan Introduction to hyperplane arrangements
January 31 Florian Block
Cookies by David 		U. Michigan Graphical hyperplane arrangements and famous (non-graphical) examples
February 7 Chris Fraser
Cookies by Yi 		U. Michigan Cartan-Killing Classification(s)
February 14 Five combinatorialists
Cookies by Kevin 		U. Michigan Bring your work to work day!
February 21 Austin Shapiro
Cookies by Chris 		U. Michigan Latin Squares
February 28 No seminar - Spring Break
March 7 Max Glick
cookies by Michael 		U. Michigan Hopf Algebras
March 14 No seminar - π Day
March 21 Michael Chmutov
cookies by Max 		U. Michigan Hopf Algebras II: Quantam Groups and Knot Invariants
March 28 Mary Wootters
cookies by Yi 		U. Michigan Expander Graphs and Applications
April 4 David Benson-Putnins
cookies by Mary 		U. Michigan The Life and Death of the Hirsch Conjecture
April 11 Chris Fraser
cookies by David 		U. Michigan Stanley Symmetric Functions: Episode I
April 18 Yi Su
cookies by Yi 		U. Michigan An algebraic approach of (affine) Stanley symmetric funcions

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