The UC Berkeley combinatorics seminar

The UC Berkeley combinatorics seminar Fall 2010, Monday 5pm - 6pm, Evans Hall 939 939 Evans Hall Organizers: Alex Engström, Raman Sanyal, Lauren Williams The seminar will be followed by drinks and/or dinner. Speakers and participants are warmly invited to join us. If you would like to be added to the seminar mailing list, contact Raman Sanyal.

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE (click for an abstract)
September 6	Labor Day (no seminar)
September 13	Philip Matchett Wood (Stanford)	Random doubly stochastic tridiagonal matrices
September 20	Arvind Ayyer (UC Davis)	Combinatorial connections to yet another statistical mechanical model
September 27	Ben Young (MSRI)	Domino shuffling on a different lattice
October 4	Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley)	Matrices with eigenvectors in a given subspace
October 11	Petter Branden (Stockholm University)	Combinatorics of hyperbolic polynomials
October 18	Fatemeh Mohammadi	Weakly polymatroidal ideals
October 25	Marcelo Aguiar (Texas A and M)	The Hopf monoid of generalized permutahedra
November 1	Volkmar Welker (Universitat Marburg)	Betti-polynomials of powers of ideals
November 8	Kurt Johansson	Non-intersecting paths and random matrices.
November 15	Helene Barcelo (MSRI)	r-Disjoint k-Parabolic Subspace Arrangements
November 22	Patrik Noren (KTH)	Polytopes from Subgraph Statistics
November 29	Dustin Cartwright (UC Berkeley)	The number of eigenvalues of a tensor
December 6	Random matrix theory workshop at MSRI (no seminar)
December 13	Olga Holtz (UC Berkeley)	Hierarchical zonotopal spaces