University of Miami
Department of Mathematics

presents a

SYMPOSIUM ON ALGEBRAIC AND GEOMETRIC COMBINATORICS

March 21st and 22nd, 2011

SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Monday, March 21
10:00am-
10:30am
Coffee and Refreshments, University Center, UC245
10:30am-
11:30am
Lou Billera, Cornell University, Flag Enumeration in Polytopes, Eulerian Partially Ordered Sets and Coxeter Groups, University Center, UC245
11:45am-
12:45pm
Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University, The q=-1 Phenomenon via Homology Concentration, University Center, UC245
5:00pm-
6:00pm
Richard Stanley, MIT, Plane Tilings, THE MCKNIGHT-ZAME LECTURE, CAS Gallery (Wesley Center)
Tuesday, March 22
1:30pm-
2:00pm
Coffee and Refreshments, Ungar Building, Math Department Lounge
2:00pm-
3:00pm
Anders Björner, Director, Mittag-Leffler Institute, A q-analogue of the FKG Inequality and Some Applications , Ungar Building, UB402
3:15pm-
4:15pm </strong
Drew Armstrong, University of Miami, A Uniform Bijection between Nonnesting and Noncrossing Partitions, Ungar Building, UB402
5:00pm-
6:00pm
Richard Stanley, MIT, A Survey of Alternating Permutations, DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM, Ungar Building, UB402

  For further information contact Michelle Wachs wachs@math.miami.edu