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 ===== Logistics ===== ===== Logistics =====
  
-For Spring 2026, the meeting time is TBA. We will read Richard P. Stanley’s //​Enumerative Combinatorics,​ Vol. 1,// followed by a series of lightning talks highlighting active research topics within the department. ​+For Spring 2026, we will meet in MSB 2112 every **Friday** from **2:10-3:00 pm**. We'​ll ​read Richard P. Stanley’s ​// Algebraic Combinatorics//​ along with //​Enumerative Combinatorics,​ Vol. 1,// and Bjorner+Brenti //​Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups// followed by a series of lightning talks highlighting active research topics within the department. In addition, there will be pretalks for select speakers of the ADM seminar. ​  
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 +1-2 units of MAT 298 are available upon request for participants. The faculty mentor is [[https://​sites.google.com/​view/​chenchen-zhao/​|Chenchen Zhao]].
  
 ===== Schedule ===== ===== Schedule =====
 ====Spring 2026==== ====Spring 2026====
-  * Week 1: TBA+  * (4/3) Meeting ​1: Logistics + Walks on graphs 
 +  * (4/10) Meeting 2: Posets (Ellie AC chapter 4-4.2), Young diagrams (Josh AC chapter 6-6.3) 
 +  * (4/17) Meeting 3: q-binomial coefficients (Ryan AC 6.4-6.6), Young tableaux (Penelope AC ch 8-8.1 + Appendix 1?) 
 +  * (4/24) Meeting 4: Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence (RSK) (Penelope? TBD...AC Appendix 1,2) 
 +  * (5/1) Meeting 5: Coxeter groups (Anouk, Bjorner Brenti Section 1.1-1.3/​1.3) and the Bruhat order (Tanner BB 2.1,2.2)  
 +  * (5/8) Meeting 6: Combinatorial commutative algebra (simplical complexes, the face ring) (Ellie, Josh) 
 +  * (5/15) Meeting 7: Generating Function Problem Set 
 +  * (5/22) Meeting 8: Lightning talks (Lisa, Soyeon, Timothy) 
 +  * (5/29) Meeting 9: Lightning talks (Jake, Jillian, Mary Claire)
  
  
- +===== Previous Talks =====
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-===== Schedule ​=====+
 ====Spring 2025==== ====Spring 2025====
   * April 11: Jake Quinn: "An intro to type A affine Hecke algebra representations"​   * April 11: Jake Quinn: "An intro to type A affine Hecke algebra representations"​
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   * May 30: Mary Claire Simone: Plethysm   * May 30: Mary Claire Simone: Plethysm
   * June 6: Timothy Blanton: Chip-firing   * June 6: Timothy Blanton: Chip-firing
-==== Previous Talks ====+
 === Winter 2025 === === Winter 2025 ===
   * Week of 1/13: Soyeon Kim, Cluster algebras and plabic graphs   * Week of 1/13: Soyeon Kim, Cluster algebras and plabic graphs
   * Week of 1/20: Soyeon Kim, Cluster algebras and plabic graphs   * Week of 1/20: Soyeon Kim, Cluster algebras and plabic graphs
-  * Week of 1/27: Lisa Johnston, ​{{ ::​a_crash_course_on_symmetric_functions_and_young_tableaux_pt_1.pdf | A crash course on symmetric functions and Young tableaux Pt.1 }} +  * Week of 1/27: Lisa Johnston, A crash course on symmetric functions and Young tableaux Pt.1 
-  * Week of 2/03: Lisa Johnston, ​{{ ::​symmetric_functions_tableaux_.pdf | A crash course on symmetric functions and Young tableaux Pt.2}}+  * Week of 2/03: Lisa Johnston, A crash course on symmetric functions and Young tableaux Pt.2
   * Week of 2/10: Jon Erickson, Grassmannians and flag manifolds   * Week of 2/10: Jon Erickson, Grassmannians and flag manifolds
   * Week of 2/17: Jon Erickson, Grassmannians and flag manifolds   * Week of 2/17: Jon Erickson, Grassmannians and flag manifolds
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