List of Speakers
Emily Barnard
Name: Emily Barnard
Affiliation: DePaul University
Position: Assistant Professor
Expertise: The combinatorics of posets
Maria Gillespie
Name: Maria Gillespie
Affiliation: Colorado State University
Position: Assistant Professor
Expertise: Algebraic combinatorics, specifically focusing on symmetric function theory and its connections with geometry and representation theory, particularly Schubert calculus, crystal base theory, and Macdonald polynomials.
Emily Gunawan
Name: Emily Gunawan
Affiliation: University of Oklahoma
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Cluster algebras
Nadia Lafrenière
Name: Nadia Lafrenière
Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Spectral properties (eigenvalues, eigenvectors) of random walks corresponding to card shuffling
Rebecca Patrias
Name: Rebecca Patrias
Affiliation: University of St Thomas
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Symmetric functions, tableaux combinatorics, and K-theory combinatorics
Khrystyna Serhiyenko
Name: Khrystyna Serhiyenko
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Position: Assistant professor
Expertise: Representation theory of associative algebras, cluster algebras, and related combinatorics
Gordana Todorov
Name: Gordana Todorov
Affiliation: Northeastern University, College of Science
Position: Professor
Expertise: Representation theory of Artin algebras and noncommutative algebra
Emine Yıldırım
Name: Emine Yıldırım
Affiliation: Queen's University
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Representation theory, combinatorics and eometry