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
Old combinatorics seminar webpages: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009