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Organizers: Laura Anderson, Michael Dobbins, and Thomas Zaslavsky.

• Tuesday, January 16
  No meeting planned at present.

• Tuesday, January 23
  Speaker: Steven Simon (Bard) Cancelled
  Title: Hyperplane Equipartitions Plus Constraints
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, January 30
  No seminar today.

• Tuesday, February 6
  Speaker: Michael Dobbins (Binghamton)
  Title: Shellability is NP-Complete
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, February 13
  Speaker: Ting Su (Binghamton)
  Title: A Classification of Stringent Hyperfields
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, February 20
  Speaker: Florian Frick (Cornell)
  Title: Intersections of Finite Sets: Geometry and Topology
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Thursday, February 22 (in the Geometry/Topology Seminar; note special day and times)
  Speaker: Olakunle Abawonse (Binghamton)
  Title: Topology of the Grünbaum–Hadwiger–Ramos Hyperplane Mass Partition Problem
  Time: 2:50 - 3:50
  Title: Hyperplane Mass Partitions Via Relative Equivariant Obstruction Theory
  Time: 4:15 - 515
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, February 27
  Speaker: Benjamin Blum-Smith (NYU)
  Title: When Do Integer Permutation Invariants Form a Free Module Over the Symmetric Polynomials? An Application of Combinatorics to Invariant Theory
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, March 13 (joint with the Algebra Seminar)
  Speaker: Victor Reiner (Minnesota)
  Title: Finite General Linear Groups and Symmetric Groups
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, March 20
  Speaker: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)
  Title: Circle Problems in Signed Graphs
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, March 27 (joint with the Algebra Seminar)
  Speaker: Farbod Shokrieh (Cornell)
  Title: Effective Divisor Classes on Graphs
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Monday, April 2
  Speaker: Stefan van Zwam (Louisiana State)
  Title: A Stroll through Partial Fields
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, April 10
  Speaker: Jacob Matherne (U. Mass. Amherst)
  Title: Singular Hodge Theory of Matroids
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, April 17
  Speaker: Richard Behr
  Title: Edge Coloring and Special Edges of Signed Graphs
  Time: 12:00 - 1:00 and 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: OR-100D and WH-100E (respectively)

• Tuesday, April 24 (joint with the Geometry/Topology Seminar)
  Speaker: Robert Connelly (Cornell)
  Title: Tensegrities: Geometric Structures Suspended in Midair
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

• Tuesday, May 1 (joint with the Geometry/Topology Seminar)
  Speaker: Boris Bukh (Carnegie Mellon)
  Title: Topological Version of Pach's Overlap Theorem
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: WH-100E

  Consider the collection of all the simplices spanned by some n-point set in R^d. There are several results showing that simplices defined in this way must overlap very much. In this talk I focus on the generalization of these results to 'curvy' simplices.

  Specifically, Pach showed that every d+1 sets of points, Q₁, …, Q_d+1, in R^d contain linearly-sized subsets P_i in Q_i such that all the transversal simplices that they span intersect. In joint work with Alfredo Hubard, we show, by means of an example, that a topological extension of Pach's theorem does not hold with subsets of size C(log n)^1/(d-1). We show that this is tight in dimension 2, for all surfaces other than S². Surprisingly, the optimal bound for S² is (log n)^1/2. This improves upon results of Barany, Meshulam, Nevo, Tancer.

• Tuesday, May 8
  Speaker: Jim Lawrence (George Mason)
  Title: Interval Posets, Parity Representations, Binary Partitions, and Antiprisms
  Time: 3:00 - 4:00 (Note special time.)
  Room: WH-100E

  Given a poset (a partially ordered set), one obtains another poset by considering the collection of intervals of the first, partially ordered by inclusion. (There are various possibilities, depending, for instance, upon whether one considers the empty set as being an “interval.”) This construction has found use in the study of convex polytopes and other places. I describe a new method of representation of posets by utilizing certain geometric complexes in R^d having vertices in Z^d. The striking feature of this method of representation is that taking the interval poset corresponds to dilation by a factor of 2 of the geometric complex. I explore connections with the integer partitions of powers of 2 into powers of 2.

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