Fall 2011

Monday, September 12, 2011
Benjamin Braun
University of Kentucky
"Euler-Mahonian statistics via polyhedral geometry"

Monday, October 17, 2011
Robert Davis
University of Kentucky
"Mahonian partition identities via polyhedral geometry"

Monday, October 24, 2011
Margaret Readdy
University of Kentucky
"Euler flag enumeration of Whitney stratified spaces"

Monday, October 31, 2011
Kayla Blyman
University of Kentucky
"Grid graphs, Gorenstein polytopes, and domino stackings"

Monday, November 7, 2011
Clifford Taylor
University of Kentucky
"Enumeration of integer solutions to linear inequalities defined by digraphs"

Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Ashley Harrison
University of Kentucky
"Symmetrically constrained compositions"

Monday, November 14, 2011
Robert Molzon
University of Kentucky
"Evolutionary dynamics and efficient equilibria in games"

Monday, November 28, 2011
Brad Fox
University of Kentucky
"An Extended Euler-Poincare Theorem"

Spring 2012

Monday, February 6, 2012
Matthias Lenz
TU Berlin
"Zonotopal algebra and Mason's conjecture"

Monday, April 2, 2012
Stuart Hamilton
University of Kentucky
"Combinatorial interpretations of binomial coefficient analogues related to Lucas sequences"

Monday, April 9, 2012
Yue Cai
University of Kentucky
"The negative q-binomial"

Monday, April 16, 2012
Hoda Bidkhori
MIT and North Carolina State University
"Lattice path matroid polytopes"

DOCTORAL DEFENSE
Thursday, April 19, 2012
JiYoon Jung
University of Kentucky
"Analytic and topological combinatorics of partition posets and permutations"

Monday, April 23, 2012
Matt Kahle
Ohio State University
"Configuration spaces of hard spheres"