Monday, January 26, 2009
Margaret Readdy
University of Kentucky
"The cd-index of Bruhat and balanced graphs"

Monday, February 2, 2009
Patricia Muldoon Brown
University of Kentucky
"The Rees product of the cubical lattice with the chain"

Monday, February 9, 2009
UK WILDCATS Seminar
Patricia Hersh
North Carolina State
"Combinatorics and topology of regular CW complexes"

Monday, February 16, 2009
Eric Clark
University of Kentucky
"An introduction to the affine symmetric group"

Monday, February 23, 2009
Richard Ehrenborg
University of Kentucky
"The descent set polynomial"

Monday, March 2, 2009
UK WILDCATS Seminar
Aleksandra Slavkovich
Penn State
"Algebraic statistics and disclosure limitation problems"

Monday, March 16, 2009
No Meeting
Spring Break

Monday, March 23, 2009
Matjaz Konvalinka
Vanderbilt University
"A bijective proof of a partition conjecture due to Ciocan'"

Saturday, March 28 -- Sunday March 29, 2009
2009 Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
UK WILDCATS Seminar
Josephine Yu
MIT
"Tropical implicitization and mixed fiber polytopes"

Monday, April 6, 2009
Ben Braun
University of Kentucky
"On the stable Kneser graphs"

Monday, April 13, 2009
Jeremy Martin
University of Kansas
"Simplicial, cubical and cellular spanning trees"

DOCTORAL DEFENSE
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Patricia Muldoon Brown
University of Kentucky
"Rees products of posets and inequalities"

CANCELLED - WILL RESCHEDULE
Monday, April 20, 2009
UK WILDCATS Seminar
Julianna Tymoczko
University of Iowa
"Topological and combinatorial constructions in the representation theory of sl_n and S_n"

Monday, April 27, 2009
Isabella Novik
University of Washington
"A variety of recent results concerning f-vectors of manifolds"

QUALIFYING EXAM
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
JiYoon Jung
University of Kentucky
"The d-divisible partition lattice"

Monday, May 18, 2009
UK WILDCATS Seminar
Julianna Tymoczko
University of Iowa
"Topological and combinatorial constructions in the representation theory of sl_n and S_n"

Monday, June 22, 2009
Pavlo Pylyavskyy
University of Michigan
"Total positivity in loop groups"