Stanford Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar Spring 2008 |
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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.
| 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 |