DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE (click to show abstract)
August 30th	Hunter Spink Stanford	Log-concavity of Matroid h-vectors (Joint with Andrew Berget and Dennis Tseng) For any matroid M, we compute the Tutte polynomial using mixed intersection numbers of classes in the combinatorial Chow ring of M arising from Grassmannians. Using this, we resolve and strengthen an old conjecture of Dawson (independently proved by Ardila-Denham-Huh) on the log-concavity of the h-vector of the independence complex of M. Recording (Passcode: 3q&@XbWv)
September 6th	Holiday - no talk
September 13th	Zhongyang Li University of Connecticut	Asymptotics of random perfect matchings I will discuss random perfect matchings on a large class of graphs, which form Schur processes. I will then talk about the limit shape (Law of Large Numbers) and convergence of height fluctuations to Gaussian Free Field (Central Limit Theorem) for random perfect matchings on these graphs in the scaling limit. Recording (Passcode: &f#f.1#2)
September 20th	Martha Precup Washington University in St. Louis	Hessenberg varieties and the Stanley--Stembridge conjecture Hessenberg varieties are subvarieties of the flag variety with important connections to representation theory, algebraic geometry, and combinatorics. In 2015, Brosnan and Chow, and independently Guay-Paquet, proved the Shareshian--Wachs conjecture, which links the combinatorics of chromatic symmetric functions to the geometry of Hessenberg varieties via a symmetric group action on the cohomology ring of regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties. This talk will give an overview of that story and present a set of linear relations satisfied by the multiplicities of certain permutation representations in that representation. As an application of these results, we prove an inductive formula for the multiplicity coefficients corresponding to partitions with a maximal number of parts. This talk is based on joint work with M. Harada.
September 27th	Mei Yin University of Denver
October 4th	Greta Panova University of Southern California
October 11th	Swee Hong Chan University of Califonia, Los Angeles
October 18th	Daoji Huang University of Minnesota
October 25th	Sean Griffin University of California, Davis
November 1st	GaYee Park University of Massachusetts, Amherst
November 8th	Stoyan Dimitrov University of Illinois, Chicago
November 15th	Luis Ferroni University of Bologna
November 22nd	Jessica De Silva California State University, Stanislaus	Erdös-Ko-Rado Graphs The Erdös-Ko-Rado (EKR) theorem states that the maximum size of an intersecting family of r-element subsets of [n] can be attained by taking all subsets containing some fixed element. This classical result in extremal combinatorics has been rephrased in the language of graph theory as an extremal property regarding independent sets of a graph. A family of independent r-sets of a graph G is an r-star if every set in the family contains some fixed vertex v. A graph is r-EKR if the maximum size of an intersecting family of independent r-sets can be attained by an r-star. In this context, the classical EKR theorem determines the values of r for which the empty graph satisfies the r-EKR property. This talk will highlight that there is much to be discovered in the search for EKR graphs, along with motivation and early findings for classes of very well-covered graphs.
November 29th

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