Fall 2021

Date Speaker Title
Sept 16 3pm Carolina Benedetti (U. Andes) Quotients of lattice path matroids
Sept 23 Tianyi Yu (UCSD) Grothendieck to Lascoux expansions
Sept 30 Jon Noel (UVic) Forcing Quasirandomness in Permutations
Oct 7 Shiliang Gao (UIUC) Newell-Littlewood numbers
Oct 14 Reading Week
Oct 21 Elaine Wong (RICAM) Computer Algebra for Tiling Problems
Oct 28 Social Event
Nov 4 Torin Greenwood (NDSU) How many ways can it fold?
Nov 11 Jay Pantone (Marquette) Combinatorial Exploration
Nov 18 Philippe Nadeau (Lyon) Remixed Eulerian numbers
Nov 25 Foster Tom (Berkeley) Horizontal-strip LLT polynomials
Dec 2 Mercedes Rosas (U. Sevilla)
Dec 9 Steven Santoli (Waterloo)

Spring 2021

Date Speaker Title
May 13Christian Bean (Reykjavik)Automating the enumeration of pattern-avoiding permutations
May 20Steven Karp (UQAM)q-Whittaker functions, finite fields, and Jordan forms
May 27CanaDAM, no seminar
June 3Oliver Pechenik (Waterloo)What is the degree of a Grothendieck polynomial?
June 10Lukas Nabergall (Waterloo)Enumerating hereditary classes of chord diagrams
June 17Angèle Hamel (Wilfrid Laurier)Identities for ninth variation Schur Q-functions
June 24Terrence George (Michigan)Arctic curves for groves
July 1Canada Day, no seminar
July 8FPSAC, no seminar
July 15David Wagner (Waterloo)Subgraph counting polynomials: some old results and new ideas
July 22Nadia Lafrenière (Dartmouth)The spectrum of the random-to-below Markov chain
July 29Social Week
August 5Simone Hu (Waterloo)A tale of two integrals
August 12URA showcase