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Organizer: Thomas Zaslavsky

Colloquium talk: Friday, January 28
Time: 4:40-5:40
Room (irregular!): SW-325
Speaker: Jennifer Wagner (University of California, San Diego)
Title: Connections Between Symmetric Functions and Permutation Statistics

Colloquium talk: Tuesday, February 1
Time: 4:30-5:30
Room (irregular!): SW-323
Speaker: Matthias Beck
Title: Dedekind Sums: A Geometric Viewpoint

Thursday, February 3 (jointly with the Geometry/Topology Seminar)
Time: 2:50-3:50 p.m.
Room: LN-2205
Speaker: Eric Swartz (Cornell)
Title: Matroids and Quotients of Spheres

Thursday, March 2 (first talk of the day: seminar)
Time: 2:50-3:50 p.m.
Room: LN-2201 (Note unusual room number.)
Speaker: Dan Slilaty (Binghamton)
Title: Orientations of Biased Graphs
(This will be a self-contained one-hour presentation of the subject of Dan's thesis.)

Thursday, March 2 (second talk of the day: Colloquium)
Time: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Room: LN-2205
Speaker: Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell)
Title: Random Walk on Finite Groups: Examples

Colloquium talk: Thursday, March 9
Time: 4:30-5:30
Room: LN-2205
Speaker: Tom Tucker (Colgate)
Title: Growth Without Groups (Growth in Nonsymmetric Graphs: Computation and Asymptotics)

Colloquium talk: Thursday, March 16
Time: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Room: LN-2205
Speaker: Louis Kauffman (U. of Illinois at Chicago Circle)
Title: State Models in Topology, Graph Theory and Statistical Mechanics

Thursday, May 11 (jointly with the Geometry/Topology Seminar)
Time: 2:50-3:50 p.m.
Room: LN-2205
Speaker: Sinai Robins (Temple University)
Title: A tale twixt two titanic polynomials

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