Combinatorial & Algebraic Geometry Seminar

List of Talks given in 2000-01

Monday, September 11		Stephanie van Willigenburg, Cornell University Descent algebras and fields of finite characteristic
Monday, September 18		Harrison Tsai, Cornell University D-modules on smooth toric varieties
Monday, October 2		Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University Perpendicular dissections, composed partitions and deformations of the braid arrangement
Monday, October 23		Liana Sega, Purdue University Effective results for homology of powers of the maximal ideal
Monday, October 30		Srikanth Iyengar, University of Sheffield (UK) Detecting smoothness of an algebraic variety
Monday, November 6		Jonathan Farley, Vanderbilt University The Stanley-Neggers conjecture and unimodality
Monday, November 13		Kathryn Nyman, Cornell University Incidence numbers for line and pseudo-line arrangements
Monday, November 27		Xun Dong, University of Minnesota Topology of bounded-degree graph complexes
Monday, January 29		Edward Swartz, Cornell University h-vectors of independence complexes
Monday, February 5		Edward Swartz, Cornell University h-vectors of broken circuit complexes
Monday, February 12		Nantel Bergeron, York University Pieri operators on graphs and Aguiar theory
Monday, February 19		Christopher Francisco, Cornell University Hilbert functions and graded Betti numbers
Monday, February 26		Matthias Beck, Binghamton University On Sperner's inequality and its generalizations
Monday, March 5		Swapneel Mahajan, Cornell University Projection maps and shellings
Monday, March 12		Marcelo Aguiar, University of Montreal (Canada) A universal approach to quasisymmetric generating functions
Monday, April 2		Kenneth Brown, Cornell University Road coloring and semigroups: work of Budzban and Mukherjea
Friday, April 6		Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota Local cohomology modules of Stanley-Reisner rings with supports in monomial ideals
Monday, April 16		Konstantin Rybnikov, Cornell University Gain graphs, Schlegel diagrams and $C^{r-1}_r$-splines
Monday, April 23		Vesselin Gasharov, Cornell University Polynomial rings with restricted powers of the variables