KU Combinatorics Seminar
Spring 2008

The KU Combinatorics Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 3:00--4:00 PM, in Snow 408. Please contact Jeremy Martin if you are interested in speaking.

• Wednesday 1/23
  No seminar
• Wednesday 1/30
  Jeremy Martin
  Chip-firing games, spanning trees, the critical group, and all that
• Wednesday 2/6
  Seminar canceled due to inclement weather
• Wednesday 2/13
  Jeremy Martin
  More chip-firing games, spanning trees, the critical group, and all that
• Wednesday 2/20
  Jeremy Martin
  Still more chip-firing games, spanning trees, the critical group, and all that
• Wednesday 2/27
  Brandon Humpert
  Discrete polymatroids
• Wednesday 3/5
  Brandon Humpert
  Discrete polymatroids II
• Wednesday 3/12
  Marge Bayer
  The Multiplex
• Wednesday 3/19
  Spring Break -- no seminar
• Wednesday 3/26
  Jeremy Martin
  Decreasing trees and alternating permutations
• Wednesday 4/2
  No seminar
• Wednesday 4/9 Special double feature!
  Tom Enkosky
  Algebraic Sudoku
  Brandon Humpert
  A Quasisymmetric Function Generalization of the Chromatic Symmetric Function
• Wednesday 4/16
  TBA
• Wednesday 4/23
  Jenny Buontempo
  Matroid Theory and the Tutte Polynomial (M.A. Oral Examination)
• Wednesday 4/30
  Tom Enkosky
  Whitney Numbers of Modular Lattices
• Wednesday 5/7
  Math 796 Project Presentations

Combinatorics seminars from previous semesters:

• Fall 2007
• Spring 2007
• Fall 2006
• Spring 2006