Pacific Northwest Combinatorics Day
March 31, 2018
This is a one-day conference taking place on Saturday, March 31st on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle.
The topics of this event are enumerative and algebraic combinatorics.
The conference will feature 4 invited talks as well as 5-minute presentations by participants. All talks will take place in Savery Hall, room 264, see map below.
Registration: The event is free, but registration is required to help us with our planning. Please register via email to nadeauph@uw.edu. If you want to give a 5 minute presentation, please send a title when you register.
If you are a student or postdoc you may qualify for some travel funding. Please send a request for travel funding before March 20 to mmishna@sfu.ca. Include your affiliation, advisor and an estimate of your economy travel cost to Seattle.
Local accommodation: See for instance https://math.washington.edu/visitor-information, Area Hotels
Invited Speakers:
- Sylvie Corteel (Univ. California Berkeley / Univ. Paris-Diderot)
- Matjaž Konvalinka (University of Ljubljana )
- Kevin Purbhoo (University of Waterloo)
- Steph van Willigenburg (University of British Columbia)
Schedule:
9:30am - 10:00am Registration and Welcome
10:00am - 10:45am Kevin Purbhoo, Promotion, Evacuation, and Folding
10:45am - 11:15am Coffee break
11:15am - 12:00am Matjaž Konvalinka, A bijective proof of the hook-length formula for skew shapes
12:00am - 1:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm - 2:15pm Sylvie Corteel, Combinatorics of the asymmetric simple exclusion process
2:15pm- 3:00pm Mini-talks
3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee break
3:30pm - 4:15pm Steph van Willigenburg, The e-positivity of chromatic symmetric functions
All talks will take place at Savery Hall in Room 264