====== The Combinatorics Seminar ====== [[index.html|Current Semester and Home Page]] [[http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/%22|Best Viewed With Any Browser]] ===== SPRING 1999 ===== **Tuesday, February 2** //(3:00 in LN-2298, joint with [[../AlgebraSem/|Algebra Seminar]])//\\ //Speaker//: Matthias Beck (Temple Univ.)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.19990202|Counting lattice points by means of the residue theorem. I: Basic ideas]] **Tuesday, February 9** //(3:00 in LN-2298, joint with [[../AlgebraSem/|Algebra Seminar]])//\\ //Speaker//: Matthias Beck (Temple Univ.)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.19990202|Counting lattice points by means of the residue theorem. II: Rational polytopes]] **Tuesday, March 30** //(3:00 in LN-2298, joint with [[../AlgebraSem/|Algebra Seminar]])//\\ //Speaker//: Jim Belk (Binghamton Univ.)\\ //Title//: Switching of graphs with skew gains (a paper of Hage and Harju) April is the coolest month for combinatorics: take a look. **Thursday, April 8**\\ //Speaker//: Richard P. Stanley (MIT)\\ //Seminar talk (2:50 in LN-2298, joint with [[../topsem/|Geometry/Topology Seminar]])//: [[abstract.19990408|Volumes, mixed volumes, and lattice point enumerators of convex polytopes]]\\ //Colloquium talk (4:30 in SW-323)//: Characteristic polynomials of hyperplane arrangements **Thursday, April 15**\\ //Speaker//: Mark Watkins (Syracuse)\\ //Colloquium talk (4:30 in SW-323)//: [[abstract.19990415|Edge-transitive maps on orientable surfaces]] **Tuesday, April 20** //(3:00 in LN-2298, joint with [[../AlgebraSem/|Algebra Seminar]])//\\ //Speaker//: Jim Belk (Binghamton Univ.)\\ //Title//: Switching of graphs with skew gains (a paper of Hage and Harju). II **Thursday, April 22**\\ //Speaker//: Neil Robertson (Ohio State)\\ //Seminar talk (2:50 in LN-2298, joint with [[../topsem/|Geometry/Topology Seminar]])//: [[abstract.19990422sem|Flexibility of polyhedral embeddings of graphs on a surface]]\\ //Colloquium talk (4:30 in SW-323)//: [[abstract.19990422coll|The 4-colour theorem]] **Friday, April 23**\\ //Speaker//: Neil Robertson (Ohio State)\\ //Graph theory talk (1:10 in SW-305)//: [[abstract.19990423|Minor relations for directed graphs]] (an elementary talk) ---- [[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/|Departmental home page]]. ----