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The Combinatorics Seminar

SPRING and SUMMER 2005

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Organizers: Laura Anderson and Thomas Zaslavsky.


Scheduled Talks in the Spring Semester

Speaker: Mark Watkins (Syracuse)
Title: A Characterization of Infinite Planar Imprimitive Graphs
Time: 4:30 - 5:30
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)
Title: Quasipolynomials and their Convolution
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2201

Speaker: Rigoberto Florez (Binghamton)
Title: Harmonic Conjugation in Harmonic Matroids
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2201

Speaker: David Forge (Orsay and Binghamton)
Title: Orlik-Solomon Algebras and Other Algebras of Hyperplane Arrangements
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2201

Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)
Title: Signed and Biased Graphs: A Survey
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Franco Saliola (Cornell)
Title: Face Algebras of Hyperplane Arrangements, Lattice Cohomology, and Quivers
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Lauren Rose (Bard College)
Title: Algebraic Combinatorics of Piecewise Polynomials
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Cristina Ruiz (Binghamton)
Title: A Stratification of the Middle-level MacPhersonian
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205

CANCELLED
Speaker: Vladislav Goldberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Title: Solution of Blaschke's Problem on the Linearization of Planar Webs
Time: 4:30 - 5:30
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Jack Graver (Syracuse)
Title: When Does a Curve Bound a Distorted Disk?
Time: 4:30 - 5:30
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Bruce Sagan (Michigan State)
Title: GCD Determinants
Time: 2:20 - 3:20
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Bruce Sagan (Michigan State)
Title: Congruences for Combinatorial Sequences
Time: 4:40 - 5:40
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Robert Connelly (Cornell)
Title: The Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture in the Plane
Time: 4:30 - 5:30
Room: LN-2205

Speaker: Alice Dean (Skidmore)
Title: Characterizations of Unit-Bar Visibility Graphs
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 (note unusual time)
Room: LN-1402 (note unusual room)


Scheduled Talks in the Summer

<HTML><ul></HTML> <HTML><li></HTML>Wednesday, June 8
Speaker: Greg Kuperberg (University of California at Davis and Cornell University)
Title: Numerical Cubature from Geometry and Coding Theory
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Room: LN-2205<HTML></li></HTML> <HTML><li></HTML>Monday, June 27
Speaker: N.M. Singhi (Tata Institute)
Title: Studying t-Designs and Other Families of Subsets of a Finite Set Algebraically
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 (Note unusual time.)
Room: LN-2205<HTML></li></HTML> <HTML><li></HTML><HTML><p></HTML>Thursday, July 14
Speaker: Rigoberto Flórez
Title: Four Studies in the Geometry of Biased Graphs
Time: 1:00 - 2:15 and 3:00 - 3:30
Room: LN-2205<HTML></p></HTML> <HTML><p></HTML>This talk is the public part of Mr. Flórez's thesis defense. The committee is Thomas Zaslavsky (chair), Laura Anderson, Marcin Mazur, and Gary Gordon (Lafayette College). All persons are welcome to attend the talk.<HTML></p></HTML><HTML></li></HTML> <HTML><li></HTML>Friday, July 15
Speaker: Gary Gordon (Lafayette College)
Title: Symmetries of the Icosahedral Matroid
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
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