AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, November 2, 2006 00:39:18

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, I
Room 227, Business School
Organizers:
Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Conjectured Combinatorial Interpretation of the Normalized Irreducible Character Values of the Symmetric Group.
  Richard P. Stanley*, M.I.T.
  (1021-05-60)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Markov chain on permutation-tableaux whose quotient is the asymmetric exclusion process.
  Lauren K Williams*, Harvard University
  Sylvie Corteel, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud
  (1021-05-144)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Generating functions: converting algebraic information into asymptotic estimates.
  Robin Pemantle*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1021-05-41)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Counting permutations by $3$-descents.
  Denis Chebikin*, MIT
  (1021-05-231)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tchebyshev transforms and the roots of the derivative polynomials for tangent and secant.
  Gabor Hetyei*, UNC-Charlotte
  (1021-05-168)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Combinatorics of Grassmann cells.
  Alexander Postnikov*, M.I.T.
  (1021-05-138)

Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, II
Room 227, Business School
Organizers:
Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The complete {\bf cd}-index of a Bruhat interval and a simple expression for its Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial.
  Louis J. Billera*, Cornell University
  Francesco Brenti, Universit\'a di Roma ``Tor Vergata''
  (1021-05-210)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sum/Product theorems in finite fields via Kloosterman sums
  Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
  (1021-05-39)
- 3:30 p.m.
  How many edges can a centrally symmetric polytope have?
  Alexander Barvinok, Department of Mathematics , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Isabella Novik*, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle
  (1021-05-153)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Counting Pattern-Avoiding Permutations with Perron and Frobenius.
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
  Sergey Kitaev, University of Reykjavik
  Peter Perry*, University of Kentucky
  (1021-05-97)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A bijection between $2$-triangulations and pairs of non-crossing Dyck paths.
  Sergi Elizalde*, Dartmouth College
  (1021-05-42)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cyclotomic Polytopes and Growth Series of Cyclotomic Lattices.
  Matthias Beck*, San Francisco State University
  Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
  (1021-05-38)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, III
Room 227, Business School
Organizers:
Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Harmonic analysis of Boolean functions.
  Gil Kalai*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University
  (1021-05-147)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Polyhedral theta functions.
  Sinai Robins*, Temple Unviersity
  (1021-52-166)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An index for non-regular spheres.
  Michael Slone*, University of Kentucky
  (1021-05-110)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Non-Crossing Tableaux.
  Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, MIT
  (1021-05-40)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Coloring complexes and arrangements.
  Patricia Hersh*, Indiana University-Bloomington
  Edward Swartz, Cornell University
  (1021-05-43)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Is Analysis Necessary?
  Ira M Gessel*, Brandeis University
  (1021-05-155)

Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, IV
Room 227, Business School
Organizers:
Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the Torsion Part of the Homology of the Matching Complex.
  Jakob Jonsson*, Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  (1021-05-98)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Rank of Random Graphs.
  Kevin P Costello*, Rutgers University
  Van H Vu, Rutgers University
  (1021-05-215)

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