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

===== SPRING – SUMMER 2014 =====

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[[http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dept/directions.html|Directions to the department.]]

Organizers: [[laura/|Laura Anderson]], [[vaidy/|Vaidy Sivaraman]], and [[zaslav/|Thomas Zaslavsky]].

  * **Tuesday, January 28**\\
//Speaker//: Dillon Mayhew (Victoria University of Wellington, visiting Princeton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201401may|Some Approaches to Characterizing Representable Matroids]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, February 4**\\
Organizational meeting\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, February 11**\\
//Speaker//: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201402and|Introduction to Matroid Polytopes]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, February 18**\\
//Speaker//: Melissa Fuentes (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201402fue|Proper Connection of Graphs]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, February 25**\\
//Speaker//: Marcelo Aguiar (Cornell)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201402agu|The Ring of Graphs and the Chromatic Polynomial]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, March 4** (joint with the [[../AlgebraSem/index.html|Algebra Seminar]])\\
//Speaker//: Luise-Charlotte Kappe (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201403kap|On the Covering Number of Small Symmetric Groups and the Erdös-Ko-Rado Theorem]]
  * **Tuesday, March 11**\\
//Speaker//: Thomas Zaslavsky (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201403zas|Geometry and the Chess Pieces]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, March 18**\\
//Speaker//: Vaidy Sivaraman (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201403siv|Important Conjectures and Problems I Like]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, March 25**\\
//Speaker//: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201403and|Positroids? Did you say "Positroids"?]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, April 1**\\
//Speaker//: Richard Behr (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201404beh|An Introduction to Threshold Graphs]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, April 8 (joint with the [[../topsem/index.html|Geometry/Topology Seminar]])**\\
//Speaker//: Jay Schweig (Oklahoma State)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201404sch|Bounding the Homology of a Simplicial Complex]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, April 15**\\
Spring Break
  * **Tuesday, April 22**\\
//Speaker//: Peter Maceli (Columbia)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201404mac|Coloring Graphs with Forbidden Induced Subgraphs]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, April 29**\\
//Speaker//: L. William Kazmierczak (Stevens and Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201404kaz|Node Vulnerability Models for Graph Theoretic Networks]]\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Tuesday, May 6**\\
//Title//: Problem session\\
//Time//: 1:15 - 2:15\\
//Room//: LN-2205
  * **Thursday, May 15 (Note special day)**\\
//Speaker//: Ting Su (Binghamton)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201405su|Extremal Edge Polytopes of Graphs]]\\
//Time//: 11:00 - 12:00 **(Note special time)**\\
//Room//: LN-2201
  * **Thursday, June 19 (Note special day)**\\
//Speaker//: Sonja Riedel (Bremen)\\
//Title//: [[abstract.201406rie|Combinatorial Invariants of Toric Hyperplane Arrangements]]\\
//Time//: 2:00 - 3:00 **(Note unusual time)**\\
//Room//: LN-2205 (Note usual room)


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Past Semesters:\\
| [[f13|Fall 2013]] | [[s13|Spring-Summer 2013]] | [[f12|Fall 2012]] | [[s12|Spring 2012]] | [[f11|Fall 2011]] | [[s11|Spring-Summer 2011]] | [[f10|Fall 2010]] | [[s10|Spring-Summer 2010]] | [[f09|Fall 2009]] | [[s09|Spring-Summer 2009]] | [[f08|Fall 2008]] | [[s08|Spring 2008]] | [[f07|Fall 2007]] | [[s07|Spring 2007]] | [[f06|Fall 2006]] | [[s06|Spring 2006]] | [[f05|Fall 2005]] | [[s05|Spring 2005]] | [[f04|Fall 2004]] | [[s04|Spring 2004]] | [[f03|Fall 2003]] | [[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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