Typical REU topics and suggested background reading
We do not expect students to read these prior to the REU.
Not all of these topics are represented in the REU each summer--
this is only to give you an idea of what we might work on.
Glancing at REU reports from previous summers will help round
out this picture.
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Cluster algebras - see this
survey
by Lauren Williams.
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Crystal bases- see this
survey talk
by Anne Schilling
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Cyclic sieving phenomena - see this
survey
by Bruce Sagan
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Dynamical algebraic combinatorics - see this
survey
by Jessica Striker
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Free resolutions and syzygies- see this
survey
by Gunnar Fløystad, Jason McCullough and Irena Peeva
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Friezes and cluster algbras - see this
survey
by Sophie Morier-Genoud
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Gröbner bases- see this
survey
by Bernd Sturmfels
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Integrable systems - see this
survey
by Paul Zinn-Justin
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Invariant theory of finite groups - see this
survey
by Richard Stanley
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Kazhdan-Lusztig Combinatorics - see this
survey
by Francesco Brenti
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Lattice models and puzzles - see this
paper
by Paul Zinn-Justin
- Lattice models and Yang-Baxter equations - see this
paper
by Ben Brubaker, Dan Bump and Sol Friedberg
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Matroids - see these
notes
by Vic Reiner
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Networks on surfaces - see this
survey
by Rick Kenyon
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Numerical semigroups - see these intros to
numerical semigroups
and Kunz polyhedra
by Chris O'Neill.
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Quasisymmetric and Chromatic symmetric functions - see these
notes by Franco Saliola
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Quivers - see these
chapters by Ralf Schiffler
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Reflection groups, Weyl groups, and Hecke algebras - see this
survey by Raphael Rouquier
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Representations of finite groups - see this
book
by Ben Steinberg
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Sandpile groups - see Chapters 3,4 of this
book
by Carly Klivans.
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Stanley-Reisner rings - see this
survey
by Chris Francisco, Jeffrey Mermin, and Jay Schweig.
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Superalgebras and clusters - see this
paper
by Musiker, Ovenhouse and Zhang
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Symmetric functions - see Chapter 9 of these
notes
by Jeremy Martin.
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Total positivity - see this
survey
by Sergey Fomin.
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Webs - see this
paper
by Fraser, Lam and Le .
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