Thursday, May 31, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Counting biased cliques

Speaker: Peter Nelson
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5479

Abstract: A biased graph is a pair consisting of an undirected graph G,

Thursday, May 31, 2018 11:30 AM EDT

Title: A single pass bijection between certain quarter plane lattice walks and certain Motzkin-like paths.

Speaker: Karen Yeats
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: A p-tandem quarter plane walk is a walk starting at the origin and remaining in the first quadrant

Friday, May 25, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Combinatorics in Particle Interactions

Speaker: Freddy Cachazo
Affiliation: Perimeter Institute
Room: MC 5501

Abstract:

The main approach for testing physical theories of particles is via scattering experiments. The traditional approach for computing theoretical predictions uses Feynman diagrams.

Friday, May 25, 2018 9:00 AM EDT

Title: Miniconference on combinatorial structures in perturbative QFT 2: transforms and graph counting

Speakers:

various

Thursday, May 24, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Finding Independent Transversals Efficiently

Speaker: Alessandra Graf
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5479

Abstract: Let G be a graph whose vertex set is partitioned into classes V1,..., Vm. An independent transversal of G with respect to (V1,...,Vm) is an independent set {v1,...,vm} in G such that vi is in Vi for each i.

Thursday, May 24, 2018 1:30 PM EDT

Title: Graph Reconstruction

Speaker: Cathy Wang
Affiliation:  University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: The graph reconstruction conjecture by Kelly and Ulam states that all graphs on at least three vertices are determined by their one-vertex deleted subgraphs, up to isomorphism.

Thursday, May 24, 2018 11:30 AM EDT

Title: Asymptotics of the principal of specializations of Schubert polynomials

Speaker: Alejandro Morales
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: Schubert polynomials were introduced by Lascoux and Sch\"utzenberger in 1982 to study Schubert varieties.

Friday, May 18, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: The number theory of equiangular lines

Speaker: Jon Yard
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5501

Abstract:

It is easy to prove that there can exist at most d2 equiangular complex lines in Cd. Configurations saturating this bound are known by other names: maximal equiangular tight frames, minimal complex projective 2-designs and symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measures (SIC-POVMs).

Thursday, May 17, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Representability of Matroids

Speaker: Rutger Campbell
Affiliation:  University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5479

Abstract: I will go over some negative results regarding characterizations for the class of representable

Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:30 PM EDT

Title: The Combinatorial Nullstellensatz 

Speaker: Maxwell Levit
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: I will survey Alon's survey of the combinatorial nullstellensatz.

Thursday, May 17, 2018 11:30 AM EDT

Title: Asymptotic Distribution of Parameters in Random Maps

Speaker: Julien Courtiel
Affiliation: Universite de Caen in France
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: A rooted map is a connected graph

Friday, May 11, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Large matroids: asymptotic enumeration

Speaker: Jorn van der Pol
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5501

Abstract:

How many matroids are there on a ground set of a given size? Although the question is a very basic one, we only know the answer up to a constant factor in the exponent.

Thursday, May 10, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: Coloring Graphs of Bounded Maximum Degree with Small Clique Number

Speaker: Tom Kelly
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 5479

Abstract: Greedy coloring yields an upper bound on the chromatic number $\chi$ of $\Delta+1$ for graphs of maximum degree at most $\Delta$, which is tight for cliques. 

Thursday, May 10, 2018 1:30 PM EDT

Title: The Number 6 Hash Function Collision

Speaker: Chris Godsil
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: If V is a vector space of dimension d over the eld GF(q), we have all sorts of families of

Monday, May 7, 2018 1:00 PM EDT

Title: LWE part 3: The relation with BDD

Speaker: Luis Ruiz
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Room: MC 6486

Abstract: The last piece of the puzzling reduction

Friday, May 4, 2018 3:30 PM EDT

Title: The combinatorics of Standard Young tableaux of bounded height

Speaker: Marni Mishna
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Room: MC 5501

Abstract:

Standard Young tableaux are a classic object of mathematics, appearing in problems from representation theory to bijective combinatorics.

Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:30 AM EDT

Title: An elementary approach to the quasipolynomiality of the Kronecker coefficients

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