Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics Seminar

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics Seminar


Date	Speaker	Title
September 22	Gérard Gonzalez-Sprinberg (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)	Generalized Enriques diagrams and a converse Zariski theorem
September 28	Hal Schenck (Northeastern)	The Chern polynomial of a three-arrangement
October 5	Allen Knutson (Brandeis)	Positivity of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and the combinatorics of "honeycombs"
October 19	Anatoly Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago)	Hodge theoretical invariants of plane curve singularities with several branches
October 26	Gene Cooperman (Northeastern, Computer Science)	A casual tour through computational permutation group theory
November 2	Alexander A. Klyachko (Bilkent University, Turkey)	Random walks on symmetric spaces and the singular spectrum of a matrix product
November 9	Richard Weiss (Tufts University)	Moufang polygons
November 16	Sara Billey (MIT)	Patterns, smoothness, and rational smoothness of Schubert varieties
November 23	Carol Chang (Northeastern)	MacDonald polynomials and a vector bundle on the Hilbert scheme
December 7	Alexandru Dimca (Université de Bordeaux I)	On the topology of complex polynomial functions
December 14	Michael Shapiro (Royal Institute of Technology and MIT)	Hurwitz numbers and Hodge integrals

The Seminar is usually held on Mondays, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm, in 509 Lake Hall.
For the announcement of a talk, click on the corresponding title.

Seminar Organizers

Math Seminars	Web page: Alexandru I. Suciu	Started: April 22, 1998. Last modified: Dec. 25, 1998
Math Department	Comments to: alexsuciu@neu.edu	URL: `http://www.math.neu.edu/~suciu/GASC_f98.html`