====== The Combinatorics Seminar ====== ===== SPRING 2008 ===== [[http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/|Best Viewed With Any Browser]] [[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dept/directions.html|Directions to the department.]] Organizers: [[laura/|Laura Anderson]], [[chanusa/|Christopher Hanusa]], and [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]]. The usual day, time, and place are: **Tuesdays, 1:15 - 2:15**, in Room **LN-2205**, with coffee, tea, and cookies at 3:45 in the Anderson Room, LN-2207. Some meetings will be at other times, e.g., when joint with other seminars. ---- * **Tuesday, January 29**\\ Organizational meeting. Then:\\ //Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200801zas|The Isaac Newton Workshop on Zeros of Graph Polynomials]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205\\ Links to videorecorded talks and files of slides are at: * [[http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/webseminars/pg+ws/2008/csm/csmw06/|Introductory Cross-Disciplinary Symposium]] * [[http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/webseminars/pg+ws/2008/csm/csmw01/|Zeros of Graph Polynomials]] * **Tuesday, February 5**\\ //Speaker//: Emanuele Delucchi (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200802del|Making Arrangements]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, February 12**\\ //Speaker//: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200802and|Oriented Matroids I. Duality and Topology in Oriented Matroids]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, February 19**\\ //Speaker//: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200802and|Oriented Matroids II. A Generalization of the Euclidean Property for Oriented Matroids]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, February 26**\\ //Speaker//: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200802and|Oriented Matroids III. Higher-order Non-Euclidean Oriented Matroids and the Triangulation Conjecture]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 4**\\ //Speaker//: Catherine Stenson (Juniata College)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200803ste|Line-Shelling Zonotopes of Polytopes]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 11**\\ //Speaker//: Megan Owen (Cornell University)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200803owe|Practical Distance Computation in the Space of Phylogenetic Trees]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 18**\\ //Speaker//: Emanuele Delucchi (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200803del|Discrete Morse Theory]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 25**\\ No seminar (spring break) * **Tuesday, April 1**\\ //Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200804zas|What I Remember from Baton Rouge, I]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * Saturday, April 5\\ **[[http://www.toroidalsnark.net/DMD08.html|DISCRETE MATHEMATICS DAY at Smith College]]** (Northampton, Mass.)\\ All students and professors are invited. "Highly recommended: good and interesting speakers." -- T.Z. * **Tuesday, April 8**\\ //Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200804zas|What I Remember from Baton Rouge, II]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, April 15**\\ //Speaker//: Emanuele Delucchi (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200804del|Discrete Morse Functions for Complexified Hyperplane Arrangements]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, April 22**\\ //Speaker//: Ed Swartz (Cornell)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200804swa|f-Vectors of Manifolds]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, April 29**\\ //Speaker//: Jackie Kaminski (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200804kam|Representation of Totally Unimodular Matrices on Bidirected Graphs]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, May 6**\\ //Speaker//: Emanuele Delucchi (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200805del|Shelling Orders and Discrete Morse Functions]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * Saturday, May 10\\ **GRAPH THEORY DAY 55 at Hartwick College** (Oneonta)\\ All students and professors are invited. ---- ---- ---- Past Semesters: [[f07|Fall 2007]] | [[s07|Spring 2007]] | [[f06|Fall 2006]] | [[s06|Spring 2006]] | [[f05|Fall 2005]] | [[s05|Spring 2005]] | [[f04|Fall 2004]] | [[s04|Spring 2004]] | [[f03|Fall 2003]] | [[s03|Spring 2003]] | [[f02|Fall 2002]] | [[s02|Spring 2002]] | [[f01|Fall 2001]] | [[s01|Spring 2001]] | [[f00|Fall 2000]] | [[s00|Spring 2000]] | [[f99|Fall 1999]] | [[s99|Spring 1999]] | [[f98|Fall 1998]] ---- [[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/|Departmental home page]]. ----