====== The Combinatorics Seminar ======

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===== SPRING 2000 =====


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Organizer: [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]]

**Colloquium talk: Friday, January 28**\\
//Time//: 4:40-5:40\\
//Room (irregular!)//: SW-325\\
//Speaker//: Jennifer Wagner (University of California, San Diego)\\
//Title//: [[../colloquia/012800.html|Connections Between Symmetric Functions and Permutation Statistics]]

**Colloquium talk: Tuesday, February 1**\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room (irregular!)//: SW-323\\
//Speaker//: Matthias Beck\\
//Title//: [[../colloquia/020100.html|Dedekind Sums: A Geometric Viewpoint]]

**Thursday, February 3** (jointly with the [[../topsem/|Geometry/Topology Seminar]])\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50 p.m.\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
//Speaker//: Eric Swartz (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.20000203|Matroids and Quotients of Spheres]]

**Thursday, March 2** (first talk of the day: seminar)\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50 p.m.\\
//Room//: LN-2201 (Note unusual room number.)\\
//Speaker//: Dan Slilaty (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: Orientations of Biased Graphs\\
(This will be a self-contained one-hour presentation of the subject of Dan's thesis.)

**Thursday, March 2** (second talk of the day: [[../colloquia/|Colloquium]])\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30 p.m.\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
//Speaker//: Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[../colloquia/012700.html|Random Walk on Finite Groups: Examples]]

**[[../colloquia/|Colloquium]] talk: Thursday, March 9**\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
//Speaker//: Tom Tucker (Colgate)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.20000309|Growth Without Groups (Growth in Nonsymmetric Graphs: Computation and Asymptotics)]]

**[[../colloquia/|Colloquium]] talk: Thursday, March 16**\\
//Time//: 4:30-5:30 p.m.\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
//Speaker//: Louis Kauffman (U. of Illinois at Chicago Circle)\\
//Title//: State Models in Topology, Graph Theory and Statistical Mechanics

**Thursday, May 11** (jointly with the [[../topsem/|Geometry/Topology Seminar]])\\
//Time//: 2:50-3:50 p.m.\\
//Room//: LN-2205\\
//Speaker:// Sinai Robins (Temple University)\\
//Title:// A tale twixt two titanic polynomials


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