Speakers for the Spring Semester 2008
February, 5, 622 Math
Joel Spencer (NYU)
Propp's Deterministic Realization of Random Walk
February, 12, 317 Mudd
Jan Vondrak (Princeton)
Combinatorial allocation and submodular maximization
over matroids
February, 19, 622 Math
Xander Faber (Columbia)
Foster coefficients and the Jacobian of a metric graph
February, 26, No seminar
March, 4 No seminar
March, 11, 317 Mudd
Andrew King (McGill)
Bounding the chromatic number of claw-free graphs
March, 18 No seminar---spring break
SPECIAL SEMINAR March, 24, 4 pm Math 622
Ron Aharoni
(The Technion)
A topological version of Hall's theorem
March, 25, 622 Math
Noga Alon (Tel-Aviv University / IAS)
Sparse universal graphs
April, 1, 317 Mudd
Dillon Mayhew
(Victoria University) Binary matroids with no
M(K3,3)-minors
April, 8, No seminar
April, 15, 622 Math
Alexandra Ovetsky Fradkin (Princeton)
Hadwiger's conjecture for quasi-line graphs
April, 22, 317 Mudd
Jim Orlin (MIT)
Matroid Parity Made Almost Simple
April, 29, No seminar
Past Talks
Fall 2007
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