====== The Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar ======

===== FALL 2003 =====

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Organizers: [[laura/|Laura Anderson]], [[mazur/|Marcin Mazur]], and [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]].

  * **Wednesday, September 10 [[../colloquia/|Colloquium]]**\\
//Speaker//: Jeff Kahn (Rutgers)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200309kahn|Long Range Effects in the Hard-Core and Related Models]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, September 17**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200309zas|Biased Expansion Graphs and their Cryptomorphisms]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, September 24**\\
//Speaker//: Lori Koban (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200309kob|How to Characterize Matroid Circuit Signatures by Modular Triples]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, October 1**\\
//Speaker//: Lori Koban (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200309kob|Using Gains to Lift Ternary Matroids]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, October 8**\\
//No seminar, in preparation for Discrete Math Day on Friday.//
  * **Friday, October 10**\\
//[[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/zaslav/DMD/index.html|N.E. Discrete Mathematics Day]]//
  * **Saturday-Sunday, October 11-12**\\
//[[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/ams03/ams.html|AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting]]//\\
with combinatorial special sessions.
  * **Monday, October 13 (Note special day.)**\\
//Speaker//: Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan (St. Michael's College)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200310ell|Problems from the Edge-Graph Theoretical Approaches to Computer Chip Design]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Thursday, October 16 (joint with the [[../topsem/index.html|Geometry and Topology Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Woong Kook (University of Rhode Island)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200310kook|Homology of Cycle Matroids of Complete Graphs]]\\
//Time//: 2:50 - 3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, October 22**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200310zas|Biased Expansion Graphs, Multary Quasigroups, and the Associative Law (with Proofs), Part I (of III): Examples, Questions, Assertions]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, October 29**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200310zas|Biased Expansion Graphs, Multary Quasigroups, and the Associative Law (with Proofs), Part II: Fundamental Theorems and Proofs]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Thursday, October 30 [[../colloquia/|Colloquium]]**\\
//Speaker//: Tomaž Pisanski (University of Ljubljana and Colgate University)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200310pis|Growth in Free Products with Amalgamations of Rooted Graphs]]\\
//Time//: 4:30 - 5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, November 4 (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]]) (Note special day.)**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200311zas|The Associative Law for Groups]]\\
//Time//: 2:50 - 3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, November 5**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200310zas|Biased Expansion Graphs, Multary Quasigroups, and the Associative Law (with Proofs), Part III: Consequences for Biased Expansions and Multary Quasigroups]]\\
//Time//: 4:40 - 5:40 (note special time)\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Monday, November 10 (Note special day.)**\\
//Speaker//: Matthias Beck (MSRI)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200311beck|Coefficients and Roots of Ehrhart Polynomials]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2201 (note special room)
  * **Monday, November 24 (Note special day.)**\\
//Speaker//: Pavle Blagojevic (University of Belgrade)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200311bla|How to Complicate a ``Simple'' Problem: Computational Topology of Equivariant Maps from Spheres to Complements of Arrangements]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Wednesday, December 3**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200312zas|Hyperplane Arrangements]]\\
//Time//: 3:30 - 4:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Thursday, December 4 [[../topsem/index.html|Geometry/Topology Seminar]]**\\
//Speaker//: Kai-Uwe Bux (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[../topsem/03Abstracts/Bux.html|Braiding the Chessboard Complex]]\\
//Time//: 2:50 - 3:50\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Thursday, December 11 [[../colloquia/|Colloquium]]**\\
//Speaker//: Tomaž Pisanski (University of Ljubljana and Colgate University)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.200312pis|Representations of Graphs and Related Combinatorial Structures]]\\
//Time//: 4:30 - 5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205


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Past Semesters: [[s03|Spring 2003]] | [[f02|Fall 2002]] | [[s02|Spring 2002]] | [[f01|Fall 2001]] | [[s01|Spring 2001]] | [[f00|Fall 2000]] | [[s00|Spring 2000]] | [[f99|Fall 1999]] | [[s99|Spring 1999]] | [[f98|Fall 1998]]


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