2012-2013

Benjamin Braun will be speaking in the Special Session on "Toric Algebraic Geometry and Beyond" at the AMS Central Sectional Meeting in October 2012.

2011-2012

Benjamin Braun is organizing the Invited Paper Session "Polyhedra are everywhere!" at the MathFest 2011 being held in Lexington, KY in August 2011. Speakers include Carl Lee and Margaret Readdy .

Benjamin Braun will be giving a talk at the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry in Raleigh, NC in October 2011.

Richard Ehrenborg gave the talk "Euler flag enumeration of Whitney stratified spaces" in the Workshop on Symmetry in Graphs, Maps and Polytopes at the Fields Institute in October 2011.

Benjamin Braun will be presenting a poster at the ERC Workshop "High-Complexity Discrete Geometry" at FU Berlin in October 2011.

Margaret Readdy gave a talk at Cornell University in the Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar and visited Louis Billera in November 2011.

Richard Ehrenborg and Margaret Readdy will be giving invited talks in the Special Session on Combinatorial Geometry of Polytopes being organized by Egon Schulte (Northeastern) and Asia Ivic Weiss (York University) as part of the at the January 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA.

Benjamin Braun and Drew Armstrong are organizing a special session on "Combinatorics: Algebraic and Geometric" at the 2012 AMS Spring Southeastern Section Meeting.

Undergraduate Jenna Noll gave a talk at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at Weber State University in Utah in March 2012 based upon summer research conducted with B. Braun in Summer 2011. Richard Ehrenborg gave a seminar talk at George Washington University in March 2012.

Margaret Readdy gave a colloquium talk at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (April 2012).

Benjamin Braun and Carl Lee are giving talks in Kyoto, Japan at the Workshop on Convex Polytopes.

2010-2011

Richard Ehrenborg and Margaret Readdy have each been awarded one year Memberships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during the academic year 2010--2011.

Richard Ehrenborg will be giving a talk in the University of Pennsylvania Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry (CAGE) seminar in mid-October.

Margaret Readdy will be giving a talk in the University of Pennsylvania Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry (CAGE) seminar in late October.

Benjamin Braun will be speaking in the special session, "Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics" at the 2010 Fall Central Section Meeting of the AMS November 5--7 at Notre Dame.

Carl Lee has been invited to participate in the BIRS conference, Topological methods in Toric Geometry, Symplectic Geometry and Combinatorics in November 2010.

Richard Ehrenborg and Margaret Readdy will be attending the BIRS workshop Quasisymmetric Functions in November 2010. Louis Billera, Sara Billey and Richard Stanley are organizing this workshop.

Margaret Readdy will be giving a talk in the Rutgers Experimental Mathematical Seminar in December 2010.

Richard Ehrenborg will be giving a talk in the Rutgers Experimental Mathematical Seminar in February 2011.

Richard Ehrenborg will be giving a talk in the at LACIM (Laboratoire de combinatoire et d'informatique mathematique) in Montreal in March 2011.

Drew Armstrong and Ben Braun are organizing an AMS special session at the Southeastern Sectional Meeting in March 2011.

Margaret Readdy has been invited to participate as a senior faculty member at the May 2011 BIRS workshop Algebraic Combinatorixx. This is a collaborative research and mentoring workshop for female combinatorialists being organized by Georgia Benkart, Monica Vazirani and Stephanie van Willigenburg.

Richard Ehenborg is a one hour invited speaker for the FPSAC 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is the 23rd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics.

2009-2010

Richard Ehrenborg has been invited to participate in the Geometric Combinatorics Workshop at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA in October 2009.

Richard Ehrenborg and Margaret Readdy have been invited to give talks in the AMS special session "Permutations" being organized by Persi Diaconis (Stanford), Ira Gessel (Brandeis) and Richard Stanley (MIT). This is part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco in January 2010.

Richard Ehrenborg and Margaret Readdy are co-organizing the NSF-funded workshop Combinatorics 2010: Advances, Trends and Speculations (CATS 2010 Workshop). The keynote speakers are Sara Billey (U Washington), Patricia Hersh (North Carolina State), Isabella Novik (U Washington) and Stephanie van Willigenburg (U British Columbia) This is being held one day before the AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting being held at the University of Kentucky in late March 2010. At the same meeting, Margaret and Richard are organizing the special session Advances in Algebraic & Geometric Combinatorics, which dovetails with the CATS 2010 Workshop. Jakayla Robbins and Xiangqian Zhou (Wright State U) are coorganizing a special session on Matroid Theory and Benjamin Braun will be speaking in the special session "Combinatorial Algebra" being organized by Uwe Nagel and Juan Migliore. Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers) will be giving the 2010 Erdos Memorial Lecture.

Benjamin Braun has been invited to speak in the AMS special session "Geometric Combinatorics" in April 2010.

Graduate student Matt Zeckner has been invited to speak in the AMS special session "Geometric Combinatorics" in April 2010.

Benjamin Braun will be giving a talk in the "Geometric combinatorics" minisymposium organized by Tyrrell McAllister at the June 2010 SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics.

2008-2009

Margaret Readdy will be visiting the University of Washington in February 2009 and giving a talk in the University of Washington Combinatorics Seminar.

Benjamin Braun has been invited to give a talk at the Ulam Centennial Conference in March 2009 in the session on "Ulam and Combinatorics".

2012

Margaret Readdy has been awarded a five year Simons Foundation Collaboration grant (July 2011 - June 2016).

Margaret Readdy has been awarded a University of Kentucky Tenured Professor Fellowship to support her research and the writing of a research monograph during Spring 2011.

Margaret Readdy is the PI and Richard Ehrenborg is the CoPI for National Science Foundation grant DMS-1024407 to support participants at the workshop "Combinatorics 2010: Advances, Trends & Speculations (CATS 2010 Workshop)".

From July 2009 through June 2012, Richard Ehrenborg is being partially supported by the National Science Foundation via award DMS-0902063. This grant is also supporting summer research by his students Eric Clark and JiYoon Jung.

Margaret Readdy is the PI for National Science Foundation grant DMS-0913073 to support participants of the 2009 Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference.

From July 2008 through June 2010, Benjamin Braun is partially supported by the National Science Foundation via award DMS-0758321.

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) has funded Margaret Readdy's proposal for the 2009 Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference.

Benjamin Braun has received MSRI funding to participate in the January 2008 MSRI workshop "Introductory Workshop in Combinatorial Representation Theory".

Richard Ehrenborg is the Principle Investigator for a National Security Agency Grant (June 2006 - May 2009). His grant is currently supporting summer research by Eric Clark and Michael Slone.