====== The Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar ======

[[index.html|Current Semester and Home Page]]

===== SPRING 2001 =====

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Organizers: [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]] and [[matthias/|Matthias Beck]]

  * **Tuesday, January 23, 2001 (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky\\
//Title//: [[abstract.20010123|Automorphism Groups of Dowling Lattices]]\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, January 30, 2001 (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Kathryn Nyman (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.20010130|Incidence Numbers for Line and Pseudo-line Arrangements]]\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, February 6, 2001 (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Alex Tchernev (SUNY Albany)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200102tch|Combinatorial and Homological Properties of Polynomial Functors]]\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, February 13**\\
//Speaker//: Adnan Rubai\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200102ru|Playing Nim on Simplicial Complexes]]\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, February 20, 2001 (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Stephanie van Willigenburg (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200102vw|Zigzags and Algebra]]\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, February 27**\\
//Speaker//: Steve Tedford\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200102td|Introduction to Greedoids: Interesting Things with a Really Bad Name]]\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, March 6**\\
Blizzard; rescheduled for Thursday, March 8.\\
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  * **Thursday, March 8**\\
//Speaker//: Matthias Beck\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200103be|Multidimensional Ehrhart Reciprocity]]\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, March 13**\\
Spring break; no meeting.\\
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  * **Tuesday, March 20**\\
//Speaker//: Steven Dougherty\\
//Title//: The Search for an Extremal Code of Length 72\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, March 27**\\
//Speaker//: Steve Tedford\\
//Title//: Generalizing the Graph-Coloring Techniques of Crowell to the Multi-Variable Alexander Polynomial of an Alternating Link\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50 **(Special early time.)**\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Monday, April 2 (special day)**\\
//Speaker//: Steve Tedford\\
//Title//: Characterizing Branching Greedoids, I\\
//Time//: 4:00-5:00 **(special time)**\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
This will be the first half of Tedford's candidacy exam. It is open to all.
  * **Tuesday, April 3**\\
Time conflict; this week's meeting will be on Thursday, besides the special Monday and Wednesday meetings.\\
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  * **Wednesday, April 4 (special day)**\\
//Speaker//: Steve Tedford\\
//Title//: Characterizing Branching Greedoids, II\\
//Time//: 4:00-5:00 **(special time)**\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
This will be the second half of Tedford's candidacy exam. It is open to all.
  * **Thursday, April 5** (Special day!)\\
//Speaker//: Matt Brin\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200104brin|Calculus III and the Four-Color Theorem]]\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, April 10**\\
//Speaker//: Martin Hildebrand (Albany)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200104hil|The Proof of a Combinatorial Conjecture of Simion]]\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Wednesday, April 18** (Special day and time!)\\
//Speaker//: Konstantin Rybnikov (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200104ryb|Gain Graphs and Polyhedral Geometry]]\\
//Time//: 5:15-6:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, April 24**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200104zas|Biased Graphs and the Associative Law]]\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
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  * **Tuesday, May 1**\\
//Speaker//: Matthias Beck\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200105beck|Dedekind's Reciprocity Law -- The Probabilistic Way]]\\
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  * **Tuesday, May 8**\\
Time conflict; this week's seminar will be on Thursday.\\
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  * **Thursday, May 10: cancelled.**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200105zas|//Secrets// of Biased Graphs //Revealed!//]]\\
//Time//: This talk will be given in the future.


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