COMBINATORICS SEMINAR

Wednesday · period 6

421 Little Hall

The combinatorics seminar has met regularly for over 20 years. Seminars are presented by U.F. faculty and graduate students and by visiting professors - on a broad spectrum of subjects in discrete mathematics. Of the U.F. faculty, K. Alladi, D. Drake, F. Garvan, K. Keating, J. King, A. Vince and N. White are regular participants. Graduate students working or intending to work in combinatorics are encouraged to give talks, and all speakers are encouraged to make their talks accessible to students. Often the topic concerns the current research of the speaker; other times the seminar is organized around a topic that the participants agree is important and timely.

Next Seminar

Speaker:         Prof. Miklos Bona

Topic:             A self-dual poset on objects counted by the Catalan numbers

Time:             Wednesday, January 20, period 3

Place:             368 Little

Professor Bona, from the Institute of Advanced Study, is a job candidate.

Speaker:         Prof. Alexander Berkovich

Topic:             A variation on the Borwein conjecture

Time:             Tuesday, February 9, period 7

Place:             421 Little

Speaker:         Prof. Meera Sitharam

Topic:            Function spaces on the n-cube: 
                       open problems and their complexity connection

Time:             Tuesday, February 16, 23, period 7

Place:             421 Little

Professor Sitharam is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science.

Speaker:         Professor Karl Strambach

Topic:            Groups of Projectivities

Time:             Tuesday, March 2, period 7

Place:             421 Little

Professor Strambach is visiting from the University of Erlangen.

Speaker:         Professor Vera Sos

Topic:            Applications of Graph Theory to Number Theory

Time:             Tuesday, March 16, period 7  (1:55 pm)

Place:             421 Little

Professor Sos is visiting from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Speaker:         Professor Bruce Sagan

Topic:            Chromatic Polynomials and Noncommutative Symmetric Functions

Time:             Thursday, March 18, period 7  (1:55 pm)

Place:             421 Little

Professor Sagan is visiting from Michigan State University.

Speaker:         Professor Kevin Keating

Topic:            Kenyon's Generalization of deBruijn's Theorem

Time:             Tuesday, April 6, period 7  (1:55 pm)

Place:             421 Little