Program for the 2017 MCC, Vincent Hall 16

Tuesday May 23, 2017

8:55-9:00 Introductory Remarks

9:00-10:00 Thomas Lam, University of Michigan, Affine Schubert polynomials
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Alex Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Newton polytopes in algebraic combinatorics
11:10-11:40 Angelica Cueto, Ohio State University, Tropical geometry of genus 2 curves
11:50-12:20 Kyungyong Lee, University of Nebraska, A conjectural description for real Schur roots of acyclic quivers

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Greta Panova, University of Pennsylvania, Kronecker and plethysm coefficients in Geometric Complexity Theory
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:00 Sheila Sundaram, Pierrepont School, Westport, CT, Plethysm and characters of S_n induced from centralisers
4:10-4:40 Tom Halverson, Macalester College, Tensor Multiplicities for the Symmetric Group, Set Partitions, and Partition Algebras
4:50-5:20 Peter Tingley, Loyola University Chicago, Crystal combinatorics from Lusztig's PBW bases

Conference party 7:30-10:00 pm

Wednesday May 24, 2017

9:00-10:00 John Shareshian, Washington University in St. Louis, Chromatic quasisymmetric functions and regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Nathan Williams, University of California-Santa Barbara, Sweeping up Zeta
11:10-11:40 Steve Butler, Iowa State University, Enumerating (multiplex) juggling patterns with cards
11:50-12:20 Sun Kim, University of Illinois, Bressoud's Conjecture

Lunch 12:30-2:00

2:00-3:00 Thomas Lam, University of Michigan, Affine Schubert polynomials
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:00 Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University, Promotion and rowmotion, revisited
4:10-4:40 Max Glick, University of Connecticut, The limit point of the pentagram map
4:50-5:20 Tri Lai, University of Nebraska, q-enumeration of lozenge tilings
5:30-6:00 Alex Miller, University of Illinois, Orthogonal polynomials and Smith normal form

Thursday, May 25, 2017

9:00-10:00 John Shareshian, Washington University in St. Louis, Chromatic quasisymmetric functions and regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-10:45 Margaret Readdy, University of Kentucky, q-Stirling identities revisited
10:55-11:25 Jia Huang, University of Nebraska, Kearney, Nonassociativity of some binary operations
11:35-12:35 Greta Panova, University of Pennsylvania, Hook formulas for skew shapes: combinatorics, asymptotics and beyond

END OF 2017 MCC