Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Spring 2002 Schedule
945 Patterson Office Tower


COLLOQUIUM
Friday, February 1, 2002
Speaker: Professor Jennifer Morse, U Penn
Title: Positivity and symmetric functions

COLLOQUIUM
Monday, March 4, 2002
Speaker: Professor George Andrews, Penn State
Title: Some things Ramanujan may have had up his sleeve

Week of March 11--17
SPRING BREAK
No seminar

Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2002
Speaker: Steve Elliott
Title: The projection of the f-vectors of 4-polytopes onto the (E,S)-plane

Date: Thursday, April 4, 2002
Speaker: Matt Menzel
Title: A simple way to tell a simple polytope from its graph

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Speaker: David Harness
Title: A bound on local minima of arrangements that implies the Upper Bound Theorem

Date: Friday, April 12, 2002
Speaker: Jennifer Rice
Title: Rigid and flexible frameworks

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2002
Speaker: Gareth Bendall
Title: An Euler's relation for convex polytopes

Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2002
Speaker: Leonard Hoffnung
Title: A simple proof of the Upper Bound Theorem

If you wish to be added to the seminar list, please e-mail Margaret Readdy at readdy@ms.uky.edu