Combinatorial & Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Combinatorial & Algebraic Geometry Seminar

List of Talks given in 1997-98

Mon., September 8   Richard Ehrenborg, Cornell University
Valuations and the characteristic polynomial
Mon., September 15   Louis Billera, Cornell University
Linear inequalities for graded posets
Mon., September 22   Margaret Readdy, Cornell University
Mixed volumes of slices of the unit cube
Mon., September 29   Arkady Berenstein, Cornell University
Products of Schur polynomials, sums of Hermitian matrices and piecewise linear combinatorics
Mon., October 6   Oscar Rothaus, Cornell University
Polytopal approximations to convex sets
Mon., October 20   Persi Diaconis, Cornell University
Threshold graphs
Mon., October 27   Moss Sweedler, Cornell University
Intimations of generality
Mon., November 3   Lisa Jeffrey, McGill University
Holomorphic bundles on Riemann surfaces and the Verlinde formula
Mon., November 10   Kelly Wieand, Harvard University
Superuniform distributions for random permutations
Mon., November 17   Louis Billera, Cornell University
Enumeration in graded posets
Mon., November 24   Hal Schenck, Cornell University
Free arrangements
Mon., December 1   Bob Connelly, Cornell University
Symmetric tensegrities
Mon., January 26   Mike Stillman, Cornell University
Primary decomposition of some ideals in statistics
Mon., February 2   Ken Brown, Cornell University
Combinatorial topology and Eigenvalues
Mon., February 9   Eric Babson, Institute for Advanced Study
Counting faces of cubical spheres
Mon., February 16   Louis Billera, Cornell University
The geometry of products of minors
Mon., February 23   Veit Elser, Cornell University
Mathematical problems generated by the study of quasicrystals
Mon., March 2   Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University
Supersolvable matroids of signed and biased graphs
Mon., March 23   Louis Billera, Cornell University
The geometry of products of minors
Mon., March 30   Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Forests and partitions in outer space
Mon., April 6   Persi Diaconis, Cornell University
Counting lattice points in polytopes
Mon., April 13   Rachel Hastings, Cornell University
Products of simplices and compositions (or: How to find a triangle in a tree)
Mon., April 20   Moon Duchin, Cornell University
The Colin de Verdiere graph parameter
Mon., April 27   Mehrdad Shahshahani,
Morse theory for finite combinatorial structures
Tue., March 10   Steve Pagano, Binghamton University
Vector representation of matroids of signed graphs
Thu., November 20   Yasuyuki Kachi, Johns Hopkins University
Characterization of projective spaces and hyperquadrics in terms of the minimal degree of rational curves connecting points
Thu., November 20   Lars Ernstrom, Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
Quantum products