Kelli Talaska
Kelli Talaska
email: kellicar@umich
office: 3072 East Hall

Combinatorics Seminar
Student Combinatorics Seminar

I am a fifth year grad student studying combinatorics with Sergey Fomin.
My curriculum vitae is available here.


Upcoming Travel Plans:
Berkeley, May 19-23
Munich area, July 15-18
Hagenberg, July 18-25
Krakow, July 26-29
Jyväskylä, July 30 - August 8
Paris, September 7 - ??


Current work:

  • Combinatorial formulas for Le-coordinates on a totally nonnegative Grassmannian,
  • arXiv:0812.0640.
  • Trek separation for Gaussian graphical models (with Seth Sullivant),
  • arXiv:0812.1938.
Publications:

  • On the bondage number of planar and directed graphs (as Kelli Carlson, with Mike Develin)
  • Discrete Math. 306 (2006), no. 8-9, 820-826.
  • Generalized books and Cm-snakes are prime graphs (as Kelli Carlson)
  • Ars Combin. 80 (2006), 215-221.


Conference and Workshop Participation:

  • 07/2009: 21st Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Hagenburg, Austria.
  • 03/2009: MSRI Combinatorial, Enumerative and Toric Geometry, Berkeley, CA.
  • 01/2009: MSRI Connections for Women, Berkeley, CA.
  • 12/2008: International Conference on Cluster Algebras and Related Topics, Morelia and Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 06/2008: 20th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Valparaiso, Chile.
  • 04/2008: 4th Annual Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference, UC Davis, Davis, CA.
  • 03/2008: MSRI Topics in Combinatorial Representation Theory, Berkeley, CA.
  • 01/2008: MSRI Connections for Women & Introductory Workshop on Cmbinatorial Representation Theory, Berkeley, CA.
  • 08/2005: NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics of Ordered Sets, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
  • 06/2005: 17th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Taormina, Sicily, Italy.
  • 07/2004: IAS/PCMI Summer Session on Geometric Combinatorics, Park City, UT.
  • 06/2004: Retrospective in Combinatorics: Honoring Stanley's 60th Birthday, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
  • 01/2004: AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, AZ.
  • 01/2002: AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings (AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory), San Diego, CA.
  • 08/2001: MAA Mathfest, Madison, WI.
  • 03/2001: 2nd Annual CombinaTexas Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
  • 01/2001: AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
  • 03/2000: Inaugural Meeting of the CombinaTexas Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.


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