COMING ATTRACTIONS:

SPECIAL SEMINAR
January 16, 2004
Professor Min Yan
"Positive Hopf Algebras and the Set Theoretical Yang-Baxter Equation"

February 2, 2004
Professor Steve Seif
"Dichotomy or not to be- that is the question! Computational complexity and finite algebras"

February 9, 2004
Sergey Kitaev
"On some famous sequences"

February 23, 2004
Todorka Nedeva
"Generalizations and Extensions of the Möbius Function"

Beginning in March, we will be meeting twice each week: 1 pm Mondays and 11 am Fridays, unless otherwise indicated.

March 1, 2004
Keith Kohrs
"Domino Tilings"

March 5, 2004
Michael Slone
"An Euler relation for valuations on polytopes"

March 8, 2004
Kathy Sharrow
"A characterization theorem for volume"

March 12, 2004 (1 pm!)
Phil Busse
"Lecture Hall Partitions"

SPRING BREAK

March 22, 2004
Pamela Ard
"Lattice Paths and Determinants"

March 26, 2004
John Rotramel
"Some Aspects of Hankel Matrices in Coding Theory and Combinatorics"

March 29, 2004 (11 am! 945 POT!)
Tom Carlile
"Total Positivity of Matrices: Two Combinatorial Approaches"

April 2, 2004
Neil Moore
"Pattern Avoidance"

April 5, 2004
NO SEMINAR

April 9, 2004
Adam Feldhaus
"Kinematic Formulas for Finite Vector Spaces"

April 12, 2004
Matt Brown
"Anything but Checkmate: The q-analogue of non-taking rook configurations in a given chessboard"

April 16, 2004
Shawn Clift
"Catalan Numbers and q-analogs"

DOCTORAL DEFENSE
April 19, 2004
Matt Menzel
"Generalized Sewing Constructions for Polytopes"

April 21, 2004
Scott Godefroy
"Invariant valuations on `star-shaped' sets"

April 23, 2004
Daniel Kiteck
"Ehrhart polynomials"

April 26, 2004
Tricia Muldoon
"Supersolvable Lattices and Sn EL-labellings"

April 30, 2004
John Eveland
"A Continuous Analogue to Sperner's Theorem"

If you wish to be added to the seminar list, please e-mail Margaret Readdy at readdy (at) ms.uky.edu