Harvard-MIT Combinatorics Reading Group Fall 2020

Wednesdays 5-6:15 pm Eastern time

Date Speaker Material covered Exercises References/Notes
9/16 Jon Intro to matroids, Coxeter stye (Sections 1.1-1.6) Talk notes
9/23 Grant Flag matroids (Sections 1.7-1.9) 17 (kind of) Talk notes
9/30 Yuhan Matroid polytopes (Sections 1.10-1.13)
10/7 Yibo Flag matroids and semimodular lattices (Chapter 2) Talk notes
10/14 Colin Symplectic matroids basics (Sections 3.1-3.5) Slides
10/21
10/28 Charles More on symplectic matroids (Sections 3.6- ) Slides
11/4 Yuhan Chapter 5
11/11 Mario Coxeter matroids for real Slides
11/18 Christian Bruhat interval polytopes Paper
12/9 Melissa Polypositroids (type A) Paper

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