Stanford Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar Spring 2008

Starting April 23, talks will be Wednesdays at 1:15 pm in 381-U

Click on the title to see the abstract (if available). For more information, please email Matt Kahle (mkahle), Tony Licata (amlicata), or Sam Payne (sampayne) at math.you-know-where.edu.

Click here for a schedule of talks from fall and winter 2007-2008.

Schedule of talks:

Wednesday, April 9 at 12:30 pm Michael Kerber (Kaiserslautern University) From chip-firing games to a Riemann-Roch theorem in tropical geometry
Wednesday, April 16 Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University) Combinatorical reciprocity theorems from a geometric viewpoint
Wednesday, April 23 at 1:15 pm Brant Jones (UC Davis) A bijection on core partitions
Wednesday, April 30 Arun Ram (University of Wisconsin) A combinatorial formula for Macdonald polynomials
Wednesday, May 14 Matt Kahle (Stanford) What we still don't know about unit distance in the Euclidean plane
Wednesday, May 21 Lauren Williams (Harvard University) From total positivity on the Grassmannian to hopping particles (the asymmetric exclusion process)
Wednesday, May 28 Ellen Veomett (California State University, East Bay) When local Banach space geometry met convex body approximation
Wednesday, June 4 Carlos André (Lisbon University) An introduction to super-character theory


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