date	speaker	title (click for an abstract)
September 2	Alex Engström (UC Berkeley)	Ideals of graph homomorphisms
September 9	Jesus de Loera (UC Davis)	Two Geometric Algorithms and their many applications in Discrete Optimization
September 16	Matthias Beck (SFSU)	Asymptotics of Ehrhart series of Lattice Polytopes
September 23	Alex Fink (UC Berkeley)	Matroid and polymatroid decompositions and valuations
September 30	Chris Manon (UC Berkeley)	Moduli of bundles, phylogenetic algebraic geometry, and the Verlinde formula
October 7	Anne Shiu (UC Berkeley)	Combinatorics of siphons in chemical reaction systems
October 14	MSRI workshop	Tropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra
October 21	IPAM workshop	Combinatorial Geometry
October 28	Emil Sköldberg (NUI Galway / Stanford)	Algebraic Morse theory and applications
November 4	Lauren Williams (MSRI / UC Berkeley)	Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process and Askey-Wilson polynomials
November 11	Holiday	Veterans Day
November 18	Alexander Papazoglou (UC Davis)	The continuous Tverberg conjecture
November 25
December 2	MSRI workshop	Tropical Structures in Geometry and Physics
December 9	Erez Lapid (HUJI/Stanford)