Program


8:30
registration

caffeine & carbohydrates
8:50
welcome, welcome.
9:00 Louis Billera

Geometric Enumeration, Quasisymmetric Functions and a Construction of Provan
  Abstract
10:00 coffee
10:15 Manoj Chari
On the number of faces of matroid complexes
  Abstract
10:45 Lindsay Piechnik
  Smooth reflexive 4-polytopes have quadratic triangulations
  Abstract
11:15 coffee
11:30 Andrea Mantler
  From Combinatorial Rigidity to Protein Allostery
  Abstract
12:00 Craig Falls
  An extremal graph related algorithm for a problem arising in genetics.
  Abstract
12:30 lunch
14:00 Martin Groetschel
  LP-Approaches to Cycles in Matroids
  Abstract
15:00 coffee
15:15 Gabor Pataki
  Column basis reduction and hard knapsack problems
  Abstract
15:45 Scott Provan
  The 2-Connected Steiner Network Problem in the Plane
  Abstract
16:15 coffee
16:30 Carla Savage
  Venn Diagrams and Symmetric Chain Decompositions in the Boolean Lattice
Abstract
Evening: dinner

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