Vic Reiner- talks
Research talks
- The Geology of Gale diagrams
- Recent progress in the topology
of simplicial complexes
(from AMS meeting in Williamstown MA, Oct. 2001)
- Koszul algebras in combinatorics
(from MSRI workshop March 2003)
- Two talks from the AMS Winter meeting New Orlean, Jan 2007
- Face numbers of nestohedra
(from Minisymposium Algebraische und geometrische Kombinatorik, Erlangen, Sept. 2008)
- Cyclic symmetry, invariant theory, and q- and t-analogues
(from Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, Heilsbronn, Feb. 2009)
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P-partitions revisited
From "Combinatorial algebra meets algebraic combinatorics"
conference at Lakehead Univ. in Thunder Bay, January 21-23, 2011
and Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics at NC State, March 9, 2011
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New twisted Gelfand pairs from reflection groups
From "q-Series 2011: a conference honoring M. Ismail and D. Stanton"
at Georgia Southern University, March 14-16, 2011
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Parking spaces
From AMS meeting in Oxford, Mississippi, March 1-3, 2013.
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Toric partial orders
From AMS meeting in Boulder, Colorado, April 13-14, 2013.
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Catalan numbers,parking functions, and invariant theory
From CanaDAM, St. Johns, Newoundland June 10-13, 2013.
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q-Narayana and q-Kreweras numbers for Weyl groups
From WachsFest, Univ. of Miami - Coral Gables, January 5-9, 2015.
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Sharp representation stability for configurations of
points in Rd
Univ. Arkansas Spring Lecture Series, March 5-7, 2015.
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Sharp representation stability for configurations of
points in Rd
Loyola Univ. AMS Central Sectional Mtg., Oct. 3-4, 2015.
- Cyclic symmetry
Smith College Thursday Lunch Talks, April 9, 2015.
- Thrall's problem and coarsenings
Positivity in algebraic combinatorics, BIRS, August 15, 2015.
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Sandpiles for group representations
Great Plains Combinatorics Conference, Univ. of Kansas, May 20, 2016
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Sandpiles and Hopf algebras
ThibonFest, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 78,
Domaine St. Jacques, Ottrott, March 27, 2017
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Hilbert functions for Chow rings of uniform matroids and their q-analogues
Joint Math. Meetings, San Diego CA, Jan. 12, 2018.
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Sandpiles and representation theory
The George Washington Univ. Colloquium, Feb. 23, 2018
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Sandpiles and representation theory
Cornell Math Colloquium (Oliver Club), Mar. 14, 2018
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Sandpiles and representation theory
Maheshwari Colloquium at SUNY-Albany, May 4, 2018
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Finite reflection groups and general linear groups
A Pan-Hemispheric Celebration of Math in Miami (ICM satellite), July 26, 2018
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On the coincidental reflection groups
MAAGC, Drexel Univ., May 4, 2019
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On the coincidental reflection groups
Arrangements at Western, U. Western Ontario, May 21, 2019
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Combinatorics of the coincidental reflection groups
FPSAC in Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 5, 2019
- Whitney numbers for poset cones
AMS Southeastern Sectional in Gainesville FL
Special Session on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics, Nov. 3, 2019
- Whitney numbers for poset cones
Mittag-Leffler ACOW (Algebraic Combinatorics Online Workshop, April 30,2020
- Resolutions of Stanley-Reisner rings and a colorful Hochster formula
Univ. of Minnesota Commutative Algebra Seminar, May 20,2020
- Sandpiles and Representation Theory
Univ. of Waterloo Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics Seminar, June 18, 2020.
- q-Binomials and the Grassmannian
Polymath Jr REU 2020 problem intro talk; here is a
video recording.
- Universal parameters for Stanley-Resiner rings and a colorful Hochster formula
(Polytop)ics, MPI-Leipzig, April 9, 2021
(and here is a talk by Ashleigh Adams on this topic at GSCC 2021 a few weeks later)
- Conjecture on cohomology of Grassmannians
Michigan State Combinatorics and Graph Theory Seminar, April 21, 2021
- Invariant theory of cyclic permutations: a test case
CA+ Conference, Minneapolis, October 30, 2021
- Topology of augmented Bergman complexes,
- Hooked on the work of Adin and Roichman
Reflections: 60th birthday of Ron Adin and Yuval Roichman,
satellite to FPSAC 2021, Bar Ilan University, Jan 10, 2022
- Invariant theory for the free left-regular band and a q-analogue
Sectional AMS meeting at U. Mass-Amherst, October 1-2, 2022.
- Hop on the left-regular band-wagon!
Michigan State Math Colloquium, October 27, 2022.
- Koszulity and Stirling representations
Various Guise of Reflection Groups, ICMS Edinburgh, March 14,2023.
- Franceso, Polya frequency sequences, and Koszulity
89th Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, BrentiFest, Bertinoro, March 28, 2023.
Overview talks, talk series
- q-counting and invariant theory
Summer School in Algebraic Combinatorics
Kraków, Poland, July 11-15, 2022
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Cyclic and dihedral sieving
Texas State University REU talk, July 22, 2021
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Hurwitz's factorization count and its deformations
Helen Barton Lecture, UNC-Greensboro (via Zoom), Aug. 26, 2020.
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Counting trees and nilpotent endomorphisms
U. Minnesota Combinatorics seminar (via Zoom), Mar. 27, 2020.
- On invariant theory for "coincidental" reflection groups
U. Minnesota Commutative Algebra seminar, Nov. 29, 2018.
- Cyclic sieving: old and new
Northeast Combinatorics Network's Virtual Combinatorics Colloquium, Nov. 14, 2018
- q-counting and representation theory
ECCO (Encuentro Colombiano de Combinatoria) 2018 Summer School
Barranquilla, Colombia, June 5-9, 2018
- Reflection group invariant theory and generatingfunctionology
Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics of Reflection Groups
Spring School, CRM-LaCIM-UQAM, Montreal, June 1-2, 2017
- General linear groups as reflection group 'wannabes'
Aisenstadt Lectures at CRM, Univ. de Montreal, March 14-17, 2017
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General linear groups as reflection group 'wannabes'
Algebraic combinatorics and group actions, Herstmonceux Castle, UK, July 12, 2016
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Cyclic symmetry? You can count on it!
Fisk Lecture, Univ. of Wyoming, March 31, 2016
- Reflection groups and finite general linear groups
from a mini-course at Centro di Recerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa, Feb. 9-13, 2015
during the INdAM intensive research period
"Perspectives in Lie Theory"
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The Art Gallery Theorem
UW Monthly Math Hour, May 18, 2014
The Art Gallery Theorem
St. John's Univ., Collegeville MN, Sept. 15, 2015,
and Augsburg College, Minneapolis MN, March 9, 2016.
- Rational Catalan Combinatorics: Intro
from AIM meeting Dec. 17-21, 2012
- Lectures on reflection group counting and q-counting
from Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics Summer School in Guimaraes, Portugal, July 2012
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Algebraic combinatorics: using algebra to help one count
Max and Rose Lorie Lecture #1, George Mason Univ., Jan 29, 2010.
Its precursor talk
given as a Minnesota Jr. Colloquium on Jan 24, 2006
- Lectures on matroids and oriented matroids
from ACE Geometric Combinatorics Summer School, Univ. Vienna, 2005
U. Minn. seminar and reading group talks
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Hall-Littlewood polynomials
U. Minn. Grad Combinatorics Seminar, Oct. 22, 2015.
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Intro to McKay correspondence
An informal seminar in Winter 2016
at U. Minn., with 3 talks by me on
Feb. 1,8,15, then one by Theo Douvropoulos on Feb. 22.
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Hodge theory and matroids
U. Minn. Grad Combinatorics Seminar, Oct. 20 and Nov. 17, 2016.
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Topology and combinatorics of the complex of injective words
U. Minn. Algebraic Representation Theory Seminar, Oct. 26 and Nov. 2, 2018.
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Seminar on Kraskiewicz-Weyman 1985, and
video
A mini-seminar at Minnesota, Mar. 16, 2021.
- Some talks on B. Steinberg's book "Representation Theory of Finite Monoids"
U. Minn. Algebra Reading Seminar on Semigroups
Prospective grad student open house talks
SIAM student chapter "5-minute research" event
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