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The Combinatorics Seminar

FALL 2009

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Organizers: Laura Anderson, Emanuele Delucchi, and Thomas Zaslavsky.


Tuesday, September 1
Organizational Meeting
Time: 1:15 - 2:00
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, September 8
Speaker: Lucas Rusnak (Binghamton)
Title: Oriented Incidence and a Generalization of Hypergraphs: An Introduction
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, September 15
Speaker: Lucas Rusnak (Binghamton)
Title: Oriented Incidence and a Generalization of Hypergraphs: Balance and Dependency
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, September 22
Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)
Title: Psycho-Graph Math on Two-Mode Signed Networks
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, September 29
Speaker: Amanda Ruiz (Binghamton)
Title: When Do Two Planted Graphs Have the Same Cotransversal Matroid?
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, October 6 (joint with the Geometry and Topology Seminar)
Speaker: Priyavrat Deshpande (Western Ontario)
Title: Arrangements of Submanifolds and the Tangent-Bundle Complement
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, October 13 (joint with the Geometry and Topology Seminar)
Speaker: Max Wakefield (Annapolis)
Title: Topological Formality of Arrangements of Subspaces Derived from Edge-Colored Hypergraphs
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, October 20
Speaker: Tom Head (Binghamton)
Title: Computing Transparently: The Independent Sets in a Graph
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, October 27
Speaker: Emanuele Delucchi & Laura Anderson (Binghamton)
Title: Complex Matroids
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, November 3
Speaker: Nate Reff (Binghamton)
Title: Extensions of Spectral Graph Theory
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, November 10
Speaker: Caroline Klivans (Chicago and Cornell)
Title: A Geometric Interpretation of the Characteristic Polynomial of a Hyperplane Arrangement
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, November 17 (joint with the Algebra and Number Theory Seminars)
Speaker: Justin Lambright (Lehigh)
Title: A Combinatorial Interpretation for Computations in the Quantum Polynomial Ring
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, November 24 (joint with the Algebra and Number Theory Seminars)
Speaker: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University)
Title: Symmetrically Constrained Compositions of an Integer
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, December 1
Speaker: Lucas Sabalka (Binghamton)
Title: Graph Braid Groups [Cancelled]
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Tuesday, December 8
Speaker: Simon Joyce (Binghamton)
Title: The Sum of Squares of Degrees in a Graph
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Friday, December 18 (Special time)
Speaker: Lucas Rusnak (Binghamton)
Title: Oriented Hypergraphs, Parts I & II
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 and 1:00-2:00
Room: LN-1120 (Note special room.)

These lectures are the Ph.D. thesis defense of Mr. Rusnak. His examining committee is Laura Anderson, Gerard Cornuejols (Carnegie-Mellon), Marcin Mazur, and Thomas Zaslavsky (chair).

Everyone is welcome to attend.




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