Combinatorics Seminar in Stockholm

This page will soon be superseded by the following new page.

The seminar normally takes place on Wednesdays at 10:15 in seminar room 3733, Department of Mathematics, KTH. Here is how to get there.

The organisers are Bruno Benedetti, Anders Björner, Petter Brändén and Svante Linusson Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.

Let us know if you want to suggest a speaker.

Seminar schedule, Spring 2012

Unless otherwise stated, the seminar starts at 10:15.

Jan 25 Matthias Lenz, Technische Universität Berlin Zonotopal algebra and Mason's conjecture
Feb 1 Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda, Université de Genève Criticality of the Abelian Sandpile Model on self-similar graphs
Feb 8 Petter Brändén, KTH Toric arrangements and multivariate arithmetic Tutte polynomials
Feb 10
Colloquium at AlbaNova Persi Diaconis: Who needs positivity?
Feb 15 Persi Diaconis, Stanford University Shuffling Cards and Hopf Algebras
Feb 29 Ragnar Freij, Chalmers / Göteborgs universitet Hansen polytopes and the 3^d conjecture
Mar 14 Ruth Charney, Brandeis University Groups associated to random graphs
March 14
Colloquium at AlbaNova Mats Gyllenberg: Rock, scissors, paper --
what a children's game can tell us about evolution
Mar 28 Pascal Schweitzer, European Post-Doc Institute Aspects of the Graph Isomorphism Problem: Coloring Techniques,
Hereditary Graph Classes and Parameterized Complexity
Apr 24
Patrick Schweitzer, University of Luxembourg Competition Numbers, Quasi-Line Graphs and Holes
Apr 25 Michał Adamaszek, University of Warwick Dense flag triangulations of 3-spheres and extremal graph theory
May 9 Jonathan A. Barmak, Universidad de Buenos Aires Colorings of a poset, coverings and fundamental groups
May 23 Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Analysis of Boolean functions: some results and two problems
May 29
(Tuesday, 15:15)
Freyr Sævarsson, KTH Combinatorics in Pattern-based Graphical Passwords
(Master Thesis presentation) 15:15 in room 3733
May 30 Oliver Krüger, KTH Kombinatorisk spelteori (Master Thesis presentation)
     
Aug 16
(Thursday)
Arvind Ayyer, UC Davis  

Past seminars

Seminars since Fall 2006, alphabetical index

Fall 2011
Spring 2011   Fall 2010
Spring 2010   Fall 2009
Spring 2009   Fall 2008
Spring 2008   Fall 2007
Spring 2007   Fall 2006

The combinatorics group in Stockholm