Schedule: AMS Special Session Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, Storrs, CT

AMS Fall Eastern Meeting
University of Connecticut
October 28-29, 2006

Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics


Saturday, October 28th
* Morning session *

8:00 am
Richard Stanley
MIT
"A Conjectured Combinatorial Interpretation of the Normalized Irreducible Character Values of the Symmetric Group"

8:30 am
Lauren Williams
Harvard
"A Markov chain on permutation-tableaux whose quotient is the asymmetric exclusion process"

9:00 am
Robin Pemantle
University of Pennsylvania
"Generating functions: converting algebraic information into asymptotic estimates"

9:30 am
Denis Chebikin
MIT
"Counting permutations by 3-descents"

10:00 am
Gábor Hetyei
University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
"Tchebyshev transforms and the roots of the derivative polynomials for tangent and secant"

10:30 am
Alex Postnikov
MIT
"Combinatorics of Grassmann cells"



Saturday, October 28th
* Afternoon session *

2:30 pm
Louis Billera
Cornell
"The complete cd-index of a Bruhat interval and a simple expression for its Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial"

3:00 pm
Alex Iosevich
University of Missouri
"Sum/Product theorems in finite fields via Kloosterman sums"

3:30 pm
Isabella Novik
University of Washington
"How many edges can a centrally symmetric polytope have?"

4:00 pm
Peter Perry
University of Kentucky
"Counting Pattern-Avoiding Permutations with Perron and Frobenius"

4:30 pm
Sergi Elizalde
Dartmouth
"A bijection between 2-triangulations and pairs of non-crossing Dyck paths"

5:00 pm
Matthias Beck
San Francisco State
"Cyclotomic Polytopes and Growth Series of Cyclotomic Lattices"



Sunday, October 29th
* Morning session *

8:00 am
Gil Kalai
Yale and Hebrew University
"Harmonic analysis of Boolean functions"

8:30 am
Sinai Robins
Temple
"Polyhedral theta functions"

9:00 am
Michael Slone
University of Kentucky
"An index for non-regular spheres"

9:30 am
Pavlo Pylyavskyy
MIT
"Non-Crossing Tableaux"

10:00 am
Patricia Hersh
Indiana University
"Coloring complexes and arrangements"

10:30 am
Ira Gessel
Brandeis
"Is Analysis Necessary?"





Sunday, October 29th
* Afternoon session *

2:30 pm
Jakob Jonsson
Royal Institute of Technology and MIT
"On the Torsion Part of the Homology of the Matching Complex"

3:00 pm
Kevin Costello
UCSD and Rutgers
"The Rank of Random Graphs"


Last updated: October 10, 2006