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

===== SPRING 2006 =====

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[[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dept/directions.html|Directions to the department.]]

Organizers: [[laura/|Laura Anderson]], [[chanusa/|Christopher Hanusa]], and [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]].

The usual day, time, and place, this semester, are:

**Thursdays, 1:15 - 2:15**, in

Room **LN-2201**,

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.


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  * **Thursday, February 16**\\
//Speaker//: Garry Bowlin (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200602bow|Intrinsic Chirality of 3-Connected Graphs]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15
  * **Thursday, February 23**\\
//Speaker//: Leandro Junes (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: The Combinatorial Grassmannian and Extension Spaces: I\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
This talk is the first part of Mr. Junes' candidacy exam. The examining committee is Laura Anderson (chair), Chris Hanusa, and Thomas Zaslavsky. All are invited to attend.
  * **Thursday, March 2**\\
//Speaker//: Leandro Junes (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: The Combinatorial Grassmannian and Extension Spaces: II, III\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15 and 2:50 - 3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
These talks are the second and third parts of Mr. Junes' candidacy exam. The examining committee is Laura Anderson (chair), Chris Hanusa, and Thomas Zaslavsky. All are invited to attend.
  * **Thursday, March 9**\\
//Speaker//: Megan Owen (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200603owe|Combinatorics in Information Theory]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15
  * **Tuesday, March 21**\\
//Speaker//: Carlene Klivans (Chicago)\\
**Cancelled**
  * **Thursday, March 23**\\
//Speaker//: Bruce Sagan (Michigan State and Rutgers)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200603sag|Counting Permutations by Congruence Class of Major Index]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2201
  * **Friday, March 24 ([[../colloquia/|Colloquium]])** (Note unusual date and time.)\\
//Speaker//: Bruce Sagan (Michigan State and Rutgers)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200603sagc|Rational Generating Functions and Compositions]]\\
//Time//: 1:10 - 2:10\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Thursday, April 20 (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Stephanie van Willigenburg (Univ. of British Columbia)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200604wil|Coincidences Amongst Skew Schur Functions: A Pictorial Approach]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15
  * **Thursday, April 27**\\
//Speaker//: Steven Tedford (Franklin and Marshall)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200604ted|Connectivity in Lifts of Greedoids]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205 **(Note special room.)**
  * **Thursday, May 4 ([[../colloquia/|Colloquium]])**\\
//Speaker//: Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200605coh|Representation Theory, Combinatorics, and Fast Matrix Multiplication]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Saturday, May 6**\\
**[[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dmd06/|Discrete Mathematics Day at Binghamton]]**\\
Right here in Room SL-212. See the [[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dmd06/|Web page]].
  * **Monday, May 8** (joint with the [[../topsem/index.html|Geometry and Topology Seminar]])\\
//Speaker//: Daniel Biss (Chicago)\\
//Title//: [[../topsem/06Abstracts/biss.html|Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson Algebras]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30 **(Note unusual date and time.)**\\
//Room//: LN-2205


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Past Semesters: [[f05|Fall 2005]] | [[s05|Spring 2005]] | [[f04|Fall 2004]] | [[s04|Spring 2004]] | [[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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