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The Combinatorics Seminar

FALL 2012

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Organizers: Laura Anderson, Eric Swartz, and Thomas Zaslavsky.


  • Tuesday, September 4
    Organizational meeting
    Time: 1:15 - 1:45
    Room: LN-2205

  • —– Special Announcement —–

    • Weekly Study Seminar on Matroid Theory
      Time: Wed., 3:30 - 4:30, beginning Wed., Sept. 5
      Room: LN-2206
      All are invited. This will be a very elementary introduction to the basics of matroids, based on James Oxley, Matroid Theory, second edition. Zaslavsky hopes to teach a course on matroid theory in the spring; this could be (optional) preparation for it.

  • Tuesday, September 11
    Speaker: Alex Schaefer (Binghamton)
    Title: Realizing Directed Graphs by Dice
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Saturday, September 15
    DISCRETE MATHEMATICS DAYS OF THE NORTHEAST
    At the Bread Loaf Campus of Middlebury College. Information.
    All interested persons are invited. Preregistration is requested so enough lunches will be available.

  • Tuesday, September 18
    Holiday: No seminar.

  • Tuesday, September 25
    Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton)
    Title: Groups and Map Colorings
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, October 2
    Speaker: Simon Joyce (Binghamton)
    Title: The Conjectures of R. Thomas on Gene Regulatory Networks
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, October 9
    No seminar today; the scheduled talk has been cancelled.

  • Tuesday, October 16
    Speaker: Simon Lepkin (Binghamton)
    Title: Extended Gale-Shapley Algorithm for Stable Many-Many Matchings
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, October 23
    Speaker: Eric Swartz (Binghamton)
    Title: Locally 3-Arc-Transitive Covers of Complete Bipartite Graphs
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, October 30
    Speaker: Ed Swartz (Cornell)
    Title: Manifold Complexity and Face Enumeration
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Saturday, November 3
    GRAPH THEORY DAY 64
    Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey

  • Tuesday, November 6
    Speaker: Neil Spalter (Binghamton)
    Title: Orthogonal Latin Squares of Order 6
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, November 13
    Speaker: Alex Schaefer (Binghamton)
    Title: Introduction to Phylogenetic Combinatorics
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, November 20
    Speaker: Kaitlin Reissig (Binghamton)
    Title: Stanley's Theorem on Acyclic Orientations and Colorings of Graphs
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, November 27
    Speaker: Michael Fink (Binghamton)
    Title: Network Theory and Signal Processing
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, December 4
    Speaker: Jackie Kaminski (Binghamton)
    Title: Classification of Factored Gain-Graphic Arrangements
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

  • Tuesday, December 11
    Speaker: Amanda Ruiz (Binghamton)
    Title: Realization Spaces of Phased Matroids
    Time: 1:15 - 2:15
    Room: LN-2205

    Phased matroids are combinatorial objects, recently defined by Anderson and Delucchi, that play the same role for complex vector spaces as oriented matroids do for real vector spaces. A phased matroid is a matroid with additional structure that generalizes orientation.

    According to Mnëv's Universality Theorem, for those phased matroids which are complexified oriented matroids, the realization space can be arbitrarily complicated. In contrast, for most other phased matroids, the realization space is remarkably simple. I will focus on the rank-3 case to demonstrate some properties of, and proofs about, phased matroids.



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