====== The Combinatorics Seminar ====== ===== SPRING & SUMMER 2009 ===== [[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]], [[delucchi/|Emanuele Delucchi]], and [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]]. ---- ===== SPRING 2009 ===== 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 26**\\ //Organizational Meeting//\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 1:45\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Friday, January 30 (Note special day)**\\ //Speaker//: Lucas Rusnak (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200901rus|Multi-Directed Hypergraph Representations of {0, +1, −1}-Matrices]]\\ //Time//: 4:45 - 5:45 **(Note special time)**\\ //Room//: LN-2206 **(Note special room)** * **Tuesday, February 3**\\ //Speaker//: Lucas Sabalka (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200902sab|Projection-Forcing Multisets of Weight Changes]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, February 10**\\ //Speaker//: Garry Bowlin (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200902bow|Maximum Frustration in Signed Complete Bipartite Graphs]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, February 17**\\ //No seminar.// * **Tuesday, February 24**\\ //Speaker//: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200903and|Face Enumeration in Simplicial Complexes]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 3**\\ //Speaker//: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200903and|f-Vectors of Barycentric Subdivisions]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 10**\\ //Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200903zas|Eight Queens and More]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 17**\\ //Speaker//: Andy Fromader (Cornell)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200903fro|The Charney-Davis Conjecture for Certain Spheres]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, March 24**\\ //No seminar.// * **Tuesday, March 31**\\ //Speaker//: Emanuele Delucchi (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200903del|The 15 Puzzle on an Arbitrary Graph]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, April 7**\\ //No seminar.// * **Tuesday, April 14**\\ //Speaker//: Luise-Charlotte Kappe (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200904kap|On the Covering Number of Symmetric and Alternating Groups: An Exercise in Combinatorial Optimization]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, April 21**\\ //No seminar.// * **Tuesday, April 28**\\ //Speaker//: Louis Billera (Cornell)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200904bil|The Enumerative Combinatorial Geometry of Coxeter Groups]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, May 5**\\ //Speaker//: Christino Tamon (Clarkson)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200905tam|Mixing of Quantum Walks on Graphs]]\\ //Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Thursday, May 7**\\ //Speaker//: Jackie Kaminski\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200905kam|Flows on Graphs, and Related Topics: I]]\\ //Time//: 11:40 - 12:40\\ //Room//: LN-2201 * **Friday, May 8**\\ //Speaker//: Jackie Kaminski\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200905kam|Flows on Graphs, and Related Topics: II]]\\ //Time//: 10:50-11:50\\ //Room//: LN-2201 * **Tuesday, May 12** ([[../colloquia/|Colloquium talk]])\\ //Speaker//: Chris Godsil (Waterloo)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200905godc|Quantum Physics and Algebraic Graph Theory]]\\ //Time//: 1:20 - 2:20\\ //Room//: LN-2205 * **Tuesday, May 12**\\ //Speaker//: Chris Godsil (Waterloo)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200905gods|Erdös-Ko-Rado Theorems]]\\ //Time//: 4:30 - 5:30\\ //Room//: LN-2206 ---- ---- ===== SUMMER 2009 =====
**Friday, July 24**\\ //Speaker//: Garry Bowlin (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200907bow|Maximum Frustration of Bipartite Signed Graphs]]\\ //Time//: 1:00 - 3:00 (with break)\\ //Room//: LN-2205
This lecture is the Ph.D. thesis defense of Mr. Bowlin. His examining committee is Laura Anderson, Steven Dougherty (University of Scranton), Fernando Guzman, and Thomas Zaslavsky (chair).
Everyone is welcome to attend.