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| date | speaker | affiliation | title (click for an abstract) |
| January 16 |
no seminar (MLK Day) |
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| January 23 |
Dominic Hughes |
Stanford |
Proofs are Graph Homomorphisms |
| January 30 |
Edwin O'Shea |
U Washington - Seattle |
Total dual integrality and
perfect graphs |
| February 6 |
Benjamin Howard |
U Maryland |
The Projective Invariants of
Ordered Points on the Line |
| February 13 |
Federico Ardila |
SFSU |
Flag arrangements and tilings of simplices |
| February 20 |
no
seminar (Presidents' Day) |
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| Thursday,
February 23 5-6pm, 891 Evans |
Sergi Elizalde |
Dartmouth |
A bijection between 2-triangulations and pairs of non-crossing Dyck paths |
| February 27 |
Joel Kamnitzer | AIM / MIT |
Crystal structure on the set of Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes |
| Monday, March 6 3-4pm, 60 Evans |
Special Seminar on the History of Math and Art, by Daniel Biss | ||
| March 6 |
Daniel Biss |
CMI / U Chicago |
Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras |
| March 13 |
Tyrrell McAllister | UC Davis | Stretched Kostka coefficients and a conjectured generalization of the saturation theorem |
| March 20 |
Tom Braden |
U Mass |
Hypertoric varieties and Gale duality of hyperplane arrangements |
| March 27 |
no
seminar (Spring Break) |
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| April 3 |
Bernd Sturmfels |
UC Berkeley |
How to subdivide the 4-cube |
| April 10 |
Luca Trevisan |
UC Berkeley |
Gowers Uniformity, Influence of Variables, and PCPs |
| Saturday, April 15, |
Bay Area Discrete Math Day | ||
| April 17 |
Matthias Beck |
SFSU |
Irrational proofs for theorems of Stanley and Brion |
| April 24 |
Christophe Hohlweg |
Fields Institute, U Toronto |
Realizations
of the associahedron and cyclohedron |
| Sat-Sun, April 29-30 SFSU |
AMS Sectional Meeting, including Special Sessions on: |
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| May 1, 10:30am-12:30pm and 1:30-3pm in 959 Evans, 5-6pm in 891 Evans |
Special Working Seminar on Secant Varieties of Segre Varieties, by J. M. Landsberg |
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| May 8 |
Sam Payne |
U Michigan |
Branched covers of fans |
| May 15 |
no
seminar (exams) |