Seminar Announcement - October and November 2018
Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics
Setting:
This block seminar is held in cooperation with
BMS Berlin and
IMPRS Leipzig.
It is aimed at advanced students and
doctoral students in mathematics.
Everyone is welcome.
Students wishing to
receive credits (Schein) enroll through TU Berlin.
Please contact
Antje Schulz.
Prerequisites:
Mathematical maturity of an advanced graduate student. Interest in combinatorics.
Description:
This seminar exposes the students to current
research themes in geometric and algebraic combinatorics.
It is offered in conjunction with two Einstein
workshops held at FU Berlin during the same week, namely the
Workshop on
Geometric and Topological Combinatorics
(October 29-31)
and the Workshop on
Algebraic Combinatorics
(November 1-2).
Students attend as many of the
workshop lectures as they can.
Conversations with workshop speakers
are strongly encouraged.
Students select one lecture
per workshop as their primary topics of study.
They will write a paper on their two
topics,
and they will give a presention on one topic
on November 16. Bernd Sturmfels will also offer some lectures on that day.
Grading: The final grade will be based on scores for
participation (20%),
the November 16 lecture (30 %),
and
the final term paper (50 %).
The term paper is due on December 15, 2018.
Credits: TU Berlin will grant TU-students who
successfully complete the similar with a portfolio-Prüfung 6 ECTS.
It is recommended that before the seminar starts you go to your examination
office or to your chairman of the
examining board
to clarify if (or under which conditions)
your university will also give you 6 ECTS.
Class Meetings:
Tuesday, October 30, 14:00-16:00 at FU Berlin,
room 006 in Königin-Luise-Str 24/26
Friday, November 2, 17:00-18:00 at FU Berlin,
room 006 in Königin-Luise-Str 24/26
Friday, November 16, 9:30-17:00 at TU Berlin, room MA 621 in
Strasse des 17. Juni 136
Schedule for November 16:
9:30-10:15 Levent Dogan: Asymptotics of Young Tableux
10:15-11:00 Marie-Charlotte Brandenburg: Shortest Vectors and Voronoi Cells
11:15-12:00 Sascha Timme: Discrete Vector Fields
12:00-12:45 Sophia Elias: Symmetric Stanley-Reisner Theory
14:00-14:45 Leon Zhang: Buildings and Affine Flag Varieties
14:45-15:30 Paul Goerlach: The k-Equal Arrangement
16:00-16:55 Bernd Sturmfels: Moment Varieties of Polytopes