Kelli Talaska

Kelli Talaska
email: kellicar@umich
office: 3072 East Hall
curriculum vitae: (html) (pdf)

I am a graduate student studying algebraic combinatorics with Sergey Fomin. I will graduate in 2010.

I am spending this fall at the Statistical physics, combinatorics, and probability: from discrete to continuous models trimester in Paris.

Recent and upcoming travel plans:

2009
Berkeley, August 20 - September 1
Paris, September 2 - October 11
Berkeley, October 11-17
Paris, October 22 - December 10
Canterbury, UK, December 1-2
2010
San Francisco, January 13-16
Fredericton, NB, June 4-6
Siena, Italy, July 4-7
San Francisco, August 2-6

Publications:

Combinatorial formulas for Le-coordinates on a totally nonnegative Grassmannian,
arXiv:0812.0640, to appear in J. Combin. Theory Ser. A.

Trek separation for Gaussian graphical models (with Seth Sullivant and Jan Draisma),
arXiv:0812.1938, to appear in Ann. Statist.

A formula for Plücker coordinates associated with a planar network,
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2008, rnn081.

The capacity region of a collection of multicast sessions in an undirected ring network (as Kelli Carlson, with S. M. Sadegh Tabatabaei Yazdi, Serap A. Savari, and Gerhard Kramer),
2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2007, 40.

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 C_m-snakes are prime graphs (as Kelli Carlson),
Ars Combin. 80 (2006), 215-221.

Conference and Workshop Participation:

10/2009: MSRI Tropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra, Berkeley, CA.
09-12/2009: Statistical physics, combinatorics, and probability: from discrete to continuous models, Paris, France.
08/2009: MSRI Connections for Women & Introductory Workshop on Tropical Geometry, Berkeley, CA.
07/2009: 21st Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Hagenberg, 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 Combinatorial 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.