Discrete CATS Seminar

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
DISCRETE CATS SEMINAR
DISCRETE MATH AND COMBINATORICS: ALGEBRAIC & TOPOLOGICAL SEMINAR
113 PATTERSON OFFICE TOWER
FALL 2007 SCHEDULE




Monday, September 10, 2007
Richard Ehrenborg
University of Kentucky
"Toric Arrangements"

Monday, September 17, 2007
Carl Lee
University of Kentucky
"Sweeping the cd-Index"

Monday, September 24, 2007
Benjamin Braun
University of Kentucky
"The Topological Tverberg Conjecture"

Monday, October 1, 2007
No Meeting

Monday, October 8, 2007
Ruriko Yoshida
University of Kentucky
"On the Optimality of the Neighborhood-joining Algorithm"

Monday, October 15, 2007
No meeting
(Faculty meeting)

Monday, October 22, 2007
No meeting
(Faculty meeting)

Monday, October 29, 2007
Carlos Nicolas
University of Kentucky
"Lower and Upper Bounds for the Number of Polygons
in the Minimum Convex Subdivision of Sets of Points in the Plane"


Monday, November 5, 2007
Peter Huggins
Berkeley
"The Balanced Minimum Evolution Polytope for Phylogenetics"

Monday, November 12, 2007
Michael Slone
University of Kentucky
"Restricted lattice paths and the cd-index of a product"

Monday, November 19, 2007
Margaret Readdy
University of Kentucky
"Cyclotomic Factors of the Descent Set Polynomial"

Monday, November 26, 2007
No meeting
(Faculty Meeting)

Monday, December 3, 2007
DJ Wells
"A Recursive Structure on Bruhat Intervals"