Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Fall 2009
Mondays 2:30 PM to 3:30 in Malott 206 (new room this year)

Topics of interest are discrete geometry and algebraic combinatorics, including the geometry and combinatorics of polyhedra, enumeration in partially ordered sets and triangulations, matroid theory, the theory of rigid and flexible frameworks, tilings, packing, and graph theory.

This seminar is run jointly by Louis Billera (billera@math.cornell.edu), Bob Connelly (connelly@math.cornell.edu) and Ed Swartz (ebs@math.cornell.edu). Please feel free to suggest speakers or volunteer to speak.

To see lists of earlier talks in this series, click here.

Schedule

8/31/09
Carly Klivans,
University of Chicago
A Geometric Interpretation of the Characteristic Polynomial of Reflection Arrangements
9/7/09
Bob Connelly, Cornell
Global Rigidity
9/14/09
Nikolai Dolbilin,
Steklov Mathematical Institute
Parallelohedra: Classical and New Results, the Voronoi Problem
9/21/09
Marcelo Aguiar,
Texas A&M University
The Hopf monoid of generalized permutahedra.
9/28/09


10/9/09
Fri.: 2:30
Karoly Bezdek,
Calgary University
CANCELLED Plank problems - the discrete geometric side
10/12/09
Fall Break

10/19/09


10/26/09
Aaron Lauve,
Texas A&M
Skew Littlewood-Richardson rules from Hopf algebras
11/2/09
Eran Nevo, Cornell
Upper bounds on face numbers of flag spheres
11/9/09
Russ Woodroofe,
Washington University
Chordal clutters and k-decomposability
11/16/09
Justin Lambright,
Lehigh University
A combinatorial interpretation for computations in the quantum polynomial ring
11/23/09
Andy Frohmader, Cornell
Flag f-vectors of colored complexes
11/30/09
Sam Hsiao,
Cornell and Bard College
Peaks, shuffles, and multigraded Hopf algebras


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Last updated: November 19, 2009