Discrete CATS Seminar

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
DISCRETE CATS SEMINAR
WHERE CATS = COMBINATORICS, ALGEBRA, TOPOLOGY & STATISTICS!
112 PATTERSON OFFICE TOWER
SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE




Monday, January 21, 2008
Holiday: Martin Luther King Day

Monday, January 28, 2008
No meeting

Monday, February 4, 2008
Benjamin Braun
University of Kentucky
"The Complex of Non-Crossing Diagonals of a Polygon"

Monday, February 11, 2008
Richard Ehrenborg
University of Kentucky
"Exponential Dowling Structures"

Monday, February 18, 2008
Jake Wildstrom
University of Louisville
"Limited-information optimization of service-relocation"

Monday, February 25, 2008
Pavlo Pylyavskyy
University of Michigan and MSRI
"Combinatorial Hopf algebras and K-homology of Grassmanians"

Monday, March 3, 2008
David DeSario
Georgetown College
"Generalized solid angle theory for real polytopes"
RESCHEDULED March 24th

Monday, March 10, 2008
Spring Break

Monday, March 17, 2008
No Meeting

COLLOQUIUM
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Robert Connelly
Cornell University
"From tensegrities to distance geometry"
Time: 4:00 pm Place: CB 219
Refreshments at 3:30 pm in 745 POT

Monday, March 24, 2008
David DeSario
Georgetown College
"Generalized solid angle theory for real polytopes"

Monday, March 31, 2008
No Meeting

Monday, April 7, 2008
No Meeting (van Winter Lecture)

DOCTORAL DEFENSE
Friday, April 11, 2008
Michael Slone
"Homological combinatorics and extensions of the cd-index"
Time: 10 am Place: 945 POT

Monday, April 14, 2008
Paul Koester
Indiana University
"On additive energy and doubling"

MASTERS EXAM TALK
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
JiYoon Jung
"Some aspects of groups acting on finite posets"
Time: 9:30 am Place: 205 Classroom Building

Monday, April 21, 2008
Patriot's Day

DOCTORAL DEFENSE
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Carlos Nicolas
"Structural and enumerative properties of k-triangulations"
Time: 10 am Place: 845 POT