The Combinatorics Seminar
SPRING 2007
Organizers: Laura Anderson, Christopher Hanusa, and Thomas Zaslavsky.
The usual day, time, and place, this semester, 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 30
Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)
Title: Weighted Gain Graphs, with Lattice-Ordered Gain Groups and Abelian Semigroup Weights
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Tuesday, February 27
Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)
Title: Graphs and Geometry
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Tuesday, March 6
Speaker: Chris Hanusa (Binghamton)
Title: Five Days of Five Speakers in (Roughly) Fifty Minutes
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Tuesday, March 20
Speaker: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)
Postponed.
- Tuesday, March 27
Speaker: Caroline Klivans (Chicago)
Title: A Simplicial Matrix Tree Theorem
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- April 10
Speaker: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State)
Title: Generating Functions of Rational Polyhedra and Dedekind-Carlitz Polynomials
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Tuesday, April 17
Speaker: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)
Title: All Roads Lead to the Euler Characteristic
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Saturday-Sunday, April 22-23
The Third Annual Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
- Tuesday, April 24
Speaker: Garry Bowlin (Binghamton)
Title: Frustrated Gain Graphs and Stanley's Chromatic Symmetric Function
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Tuesday, May 1
Speaker: Lucas Rusnak (Binghamton)
Title: The Combinatorics of Lopsided Sets
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Tuesday, May 8
Speaker: Jackie Kaminski (Binghamton)
Title: An introduction to matroids and their relationship to hyperplanes
Time: 1:15 - 2:15
Room: LN-2205
- Saturday, June 16
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS DAY at Pace University, New York City, N.Y.
- Thursday-Saturday, July 12-14
6th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications, at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.
- Saturday, September 15
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS DAY at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Anticipated Future Talks
- Speaker: Robert G. Bland (Cornell)
- Speaker: Chris Godsil (Waterloo)
- Speaker: Bruce Richter (Waterloo)
- Speaker: Ileana Streinu (Smith)
Past Semesters: Fall 2006 | Spring 2006 | Fall 2005 | Spring 2005 | Fall 2004 | Spring 2004 | Fall 2003 | Spring 2003 | Fall 2002 | Spring 2002 | Fall 2001 | Spring 2001 | Fall 2000 | Spring 2000 | Fall 1999 | Spring 1999 | Fall 1998
