The UC Berkeley combinatorics seminar
Spring 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.

DATE SPEAKER TITLE (click for an abstract)
January 25 Angelica Cueto (UC Berkeley) Tropical secant graphs of monomial curves
February 1 Dan Bump (Stanford) Schur polynomials and the Yang-Baxter equation
February 8 Lauren Williams,
Marc Thurley,
Alex Engstrom,
Luca Trevisan
BERKELEY COMBINATORICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE DAY,
in Wozniak Lounge (430 Soda Hall),
2-5:30pm
February 15 (holiday)
February 22 Matthew Kahle (Stanford) Configuration spaces of hard discs
March 1 Bruno Benedetti (Berlin) Locally constructible manifolds
March 8 Chris Hillar (MSRI and Berkeley) Word equations in a uniquely divisible group
March 15 John Shareshian (Washington University) Eulerian quasisymmetric functions and permutation statistics
March 22 (spring recess)
March 29 Andrew Berget (UC Davis) The rank partition of a matroid
April 5 Fu Liu (UC Davis) Higher integrality conditions and volumes of slices of polytopes
April 12 Yuji Kodama (Ohio State) Chords and Solitons
April 19 Einar Steingrimsson (Reykjavik University) The Coloring Complex of a Graph and the Chromatic Polynomial
April 26 Dan Romik (UC Davis) Alternating sign matrices
May 3 Jim Haglund (University of Pennsylvania) Experimental Mathematics: Zeros of Permanents and Approximates to the Riemann Xi-Function
Old combinatorics seminar webpages: Fall 2009 and Spring 2009