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The Combinatorics Seminar

SPRING & SUMMER 2009

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: 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: Projection-Forcing Multisets of Weight Changes
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, February 10

Speaker: Garry Bowlin (Binghamton)
Title: 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: Face Enumeration in Simplicial Complexes
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, March 3

Speaker: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)
Title: f-Vectors of Barycentric Subdivisions
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, March 10

Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)
Title: Eight Queens and More
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, March 17

Speaker: Andy Fromader (Cornell)
Title: 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: 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: 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: The Enumerative Combinatorial Geometry of Coxeter Groups
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, May 5

Speaker: Christino Tamon (Clarkson)
Title: Mixing of Quantum Walks on Graphs
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

  • Thursday, May 7

Speaker: Jackie Kaminski
Title: Flows on Graphs, and Related Topics: I
Time: 11:40 - 12:40
Room: LN-2201

  • Friday, May 8

Speaker: Jackie Kaminski
Title: Flows on Graphs, and Related Topics: II
Time: 10:50-11:50
Room: LN-2201

Speaker: Chris Godsil (Waterloo)
Title: Quantum Physics and Algebraic Graph Theory
Time: 1:20 - 2:20
Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, May 12

Speaker: Chris Godsil (Waterloo)
Title: Erdös-Ko-Rado Theorems
Time: 4:30 - 5:30
Room: LN-2206



SUMMER 2009

  • Friday, July 24
    Speaker: Garry Bowlin (Binghamton)
    Title: 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.



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