====== The Combinatorics Seminar ====== ===== FALL 2005 ===== [[http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/|Best Viewed With Any Browser]] [[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dept/directions.html|Directions to the department.]] Organizers: [[laura/|Laura Anderson]], [[chanusa/|Christopher Hanusa]], and [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]]. ----

**Tuesday, September 13**\\ //Speaker//: Christopher Hanusa (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200509han|Matrix Types and Operations Arising in Matching Theory]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, September 20 (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]])**\\ //Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200509zas|Algebra of Tutte Functions]]\\ //Time//: 2:50 - 3:50 **(Note unusual time.)**\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, September 27**\\ //Speaker//: Christopher Hanusa (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200509hana|A Gessel-Viennot-Type Method for Counting Disjoint Unions of Cycles in a Graph]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, October 11**\\ //Speaker//: Lucas Rusnak (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200510rus|Transpedances and Kirchhoff's Laws in (Di)graphs]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, October 25**\\ //Speaker//: Curtis Greene (Haverford)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200510gre|Words Avoiding a Reflexive Acyclic Relation]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, November 1**\\ //Speaker//: Cilanne Boulet (Cornell)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200511bou|A Combinatorial Rogers-Ramanujan Proof]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, November 15**\\ //Speaker//: Kristin Camenga (Cornell)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200511kam|Angle Sums on Polytopal Complexes]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, November 22**\\ Postponed to November 29.
**Tuesday, November 29** (Postponed from November 22)\\ //Speaker//: Drew Armstrong (Cornell)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200511arm|Catalan Combinatorics of Finite Coxeter Groups]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Thursday, December 1, in the [[../topsem/index.html|Geometry and Topology Seminar]]**\\ //Speaker//: Martin Kassabov (Cornell)\\ //Title//: Finite simple groups and expander graphs\\ //Time//: 2:50 - 3:50
**Thursday, December 1 ([[../colloquia/|Colloquium]])**\\ //Speaker//: Sinai Robins (Temple)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200512rob|Integer Linear Programming with the Use of Differentiable Dedekind Sums]]\\ //Time//: 4:30 - 5:30\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, December 6**\\ //Speaker//: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State Univ.)\\ //Title//: [[abstract.200512beck|Cyclotomic Polytopes and Growth Series of Cyclotomic Lattices]]\\ //Time//: 4:15 - 5:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205
**Tuesday, December 13**\\ //Speaker//: Lucas Rusnak (Binghamton)\\ //Title//: Squaring the Rectangle through Graphs (two talks)\\ //Times//: 2:00 - 3:00 and 3:15 - 4:15\\ //Room//: LN-2205

This is Mr. Rusnak's admission-to-candidacy examination. The committee consists of Laura Anderson, Marcin Mazur, and Thomas Zaslavsky (chairone). All are invited to attend.

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