====== The Combinatorics Seminar ======

===== SPRING 2004 =====

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Organizers: [[laura/|Laura Anderson]] and [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]].

  * **Thursday, January 29 (joint with the [[../topsem/index.html|Geometry and Topology Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200401zas|Homotopy in Biased Graphs: Combinatorics vs. Topology]]\\
//Time//: 2:50 - 3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Thursday, February 5 [[../colloquia/|Colloquium]]**\\
//Speaker//: Bruce Sagan (Michigan State)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200402sagc|Graph Coloring and Symmetric Functions]]\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Friday, February 6 (Note special day.)**\\
//Speaker//: Bruce Sagan (Michigan State)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200402sag|Topological Properties of Activity Orders for Matroid Bases]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Monday, February 23**\\
//Speaker//: Greg Blekherman (Univ. of Michigan)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200402ble|There are Significantly More Nonnegative Polynomials than Sums of Squares]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Friday, March 5**\\
//Speaker//: Caroline Klivans (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200403kli|The Bergman Complex of a Matroid and Phylogenetic Trees]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2201
  * **Monday, March 15**\\
//Speaker//: Kristin Camenga (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200403cam|Characterizing Inscribable Polyhedra]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2201
  * **Friday, March 26**\\
//Speaker//: Sandra Kingan (Penn State Harrisburg)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200403kin|Excluded Minor Results in Matroids]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Friday, April 16**\\
//Speaker//: Robert Connelly (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200403con|Comments on Generalized Heron Polynomials and Robbins' Conjectures]]\\
//Time//: 1:10 - 2:10\\
//Room//: LN-2205 (Note the room!)
  * **Tuesday, April 20**\\
//Speaker//: Steven J. Tedford (Franklin & Marshall)\\
//Title//: Greedoids and their Basis Graphs\\
//Time//: 1:30 - 2:30\\
//Room//: LN-2206
  * **Friday, July 23 (Special Departmental Seminar)**\\
//Speakers//: Chris Fearnley (B.A. in Mathematics from Binghamton, 1989) and Jeannie Moberley\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200407fea|Supercircles: Expanding Buckminster Fuller's Foldable Circle Models]]\\
//Time//: 2:00-3:00 p.m.\\
//Room//: LN-2205


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Past Semesters: [[f03|Fall 2003]] | [[s03|Spring 2003]] | [[f02|Fall 2002]] | [[s02|Spring 2002]] | [[f01|Fall 2001]] | [[s01|Spring 2001]] | [[f00|Fall 2000]] | [[s00|Spring 2000]] | [[f99|Fall 1999]] | [[s99|Spring 1999]] | [[f98|Fall 1998]]


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[[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/|Departmental home page]].


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