DGC Seminar

Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Spring 2009

Mondays 2:30 PM to 3:30 in Malott 230
Note new time and room

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. For the Fall 2008 schedule click here.

Schedule

1/19/2009	Eran Nevo	Missing faces and lower bounds on face numbers
1/26/2009	Yasemin Kara	The Selberg Trace Formula and Huber's Theorem
2/2/2009	Lucas Rusnak, Binghamton University	Multi-directed hypergraph representations of {0, +1, -1}-matrices
2/9/09	Matt Noonan	Rolling, Connections, and Transformations of Differential Equations
2/16/09	Michael Neiman, Rutgers	Negative correlation inequalities and log-concavity
2/23/09	Saúl Blanco	Combinatorial descriptions for Coxeter groups of type A, B and D
3/2/09	Andy Frohmader	The Charney-Davis conjecture for certain spheres
3/9/09	Bernd Schulze, York University	Symmetric Versions of Laman's Theorem
Spring Break
3/23/09	Uli Wagner, ETH Zurich	Hardness of Embedding Simplicial Complexes in R^d
3/24/09 1:25-2:30 PM in Malott 253	Margaret Wertheim, Science writer and exhibition curator (note change in day, time and place)	Mathematics as Poetic Enchantment
3/30/09	Ed Swartz	Face enumeration on manifolds with boundary
4/6/09	No meeting
4/13/09	Garry Bowlin, Binghamton University	The Gale-Berlekamp switching game
4/20/09
4/27/09	Samuel Kolins	f-vectors of triangulated balls

Link to the Math Department.

Last updated: March 24, 2009