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Fall 2017<\/h3>\n
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  • Glenn Tesler (UCSD): Multi de Bruijn Sequences<\/li>\n
  • Sami Assaf (USC): Nonsymmetric Macdonald Polynomials<\/li>\n
  • Eric Rains (CalTech): Vanishing integrals of Macdonald and Koornwinder polynomials<\/li>\n
  • Matt Hogancamp (USC): Catalan combinatorics and torus links<\/li>\n
  • Dominic Searles (USC): Combinatorial bases of polynomials<\/li>\n
  • Richard Arratia (USC): Symmetric functions and the infinite dimensional simplex<\/li>\n
  • Mohamed Omar (Harvey Mudd): A Proof of the Peak Polynomial Positivity Conjecture<\/li>\n
  • Sarah Mason (Wake Forest University): Quasisymmetric power sums<\/li>\n
  • Samantha Dahlberg (UBC): Chromatic symmetric functions and e-positivity<\/li>\n
  • Ezgi Kantarci Oguz (USC): Crystal graphs for shifted tableaux<\/li>\n
  • Nantel Bergeron (York University): Polytopes of independent sets of relations and their 1-skeleta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Spring 2017<\/h3>\n
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    • David Kempe (USC): Quasi-regular sequences and optimal schedules for security games<\/li>\n
    • Sara Billey (University of Washington): Enumeration of Parabolic Double Cosets for Symmetric Groups and Beyond<\/li>\n
    • Stephen DeSalvo (UCLA): Pattern avoidance for random permutations<\/li>\n
    • Marino Remero (UCSD): On the Delta Conjecture at $q=1$<\/li>\n
    • Vasu Tewari (UWashington): Noncommutative Schur functions and operators on compositions<\/li>\n
    • Per Alexandersson (UPenn): An e-positive conjecture for LLT polynomials<\/li>\n
    • Jesse Levitt (USC): From Surfaces to Cluster Algebras and Back: An Ongoing Story<\/li>\n
    • Anne Schilling (UC Davis): Stanley symmetric functions from the crystal perspective<\/li>\n
    • Fu Liu (UC Davis): Ehrhart positivity<\/li>\n
    • Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College): A polytopal generalization of Sperner’s lemma<\/li>\n
    • Anastasia Chaves (UC Berkeley)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Fall 2016<\/h3>\n
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      • Jim Haglund (UPenn): The combinatorics of non symmetric Macdonald polynomials and their specializations<\/li>\n
      • Larry Goldstein (USC): A lenient BKR operation for events occurring for disjoint reasons<\/li>\n
      • Matt Hogancamp (USC): Link homology and combinatorics<\/li>\n
      • Maria Gillespie (UC Davis): Monodromy and K-theory of Schubert Curves via Generalized Jeu de Taquin<\/li>\n
      • Dominic Searles (USC): The slide and glide bases of the polynomial ring<\/li>\n
      • Damir Yeliussizov (UCLA): Duality and deformations of stable Grothendieck polynomials<\/li>\n
      • Martin Tassy (UCLA): Height functions and fast tileability<\/li>\n
      • Gaku Liu (MIT): A counterexample to the extension space conjecture for realizable oriented matroids<\/li>\n
      • Aaron Lauda (USC): An introduction to odd symmetric functions<\/li>\n
      • Sami Assaf (USC): Schubert calculus by thinking inside the box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Spring 2016<\/h3>\n
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        • John Shareshian (Washington University St. Louis): Joint distributions of permutation statistics and symmetric functions<\/li>\n
        • Alejandro Morales (UCLA): Hook-length formulas for skew shapes<\/li>\n
        • Dominic Searles (USC): Schubert polynomials and slide polynomials<\/li>\n
        • Stephen DeSalvo (UCLA): On the number of integer partitions of size n: a quantitative asymptotic analysis<\/li>\n
        • Brendon Rhoades (UCSD): Evidence for parking conjectures<\/li>\n
        • Richard Arratia (USC): Low rank labelled structures, and completely effective error bounds for Stirling Numbers of the first and second kind via rooks and Poisson approximation<\/li>\n
        • Monica Vazirani (UC Davis): A Schur-Weyl-like construction of L(k^N) for the DAHA<\/li>\n
        • Sami Assaf (USC): Multiplicity-free Kronecker products<\/li>\n
        • Jason Fulman (USC): Generating functions and enumeration in finite classical groups<\/li>\n
        • Adam Sheffer (CalTech): Distinct distances and heavy lines<\/li>\n
        • Steph van Willigenburg (UBC): Maximal supports and Schur-positivity among connected skew shapes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody’s attention will turn elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

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