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====== Student-Run/Informal ADM Seminar ======

The seminar will resume in Spring 2026. It is currently organized by Timothy Blanton, Lisa Johnston, and [[https://sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/soyeon-kim/home|Soyeon Kim]]. We intend for the seminar to be an informal introduction to topics of broad interest in algebra and discrete math, primarily aimed at people without lots of background in those areas. First and second year grad students who are interested in ADM are especially welcome!

===== Logistics =====

For Spring 2026, the meeting time is TBA but will be for approximately 1 hour a week. We will read Richard P. Stanley’s // Algebraic Combinatorics// along with //Enumerative Combinatorics, Vol. 1,// 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.  

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 =====
====Spring 2026====
  * Week 1: TBA





===== Previous Talks =====
====Spring 2025====
  * April 11: Jake Quinn: "An intro to type A affine Hecke algebra representations"
  * April 18: Jake Quinn: cont.
  * April 25: Jillian Eddy:  "Polyhedral invariants from a data-oriented perspective"
  * May 2: no speaker
  * May 9: Artyom Lisitsyn: Bipartite diagrams and hypertrees (in physics), and the (positive) Grassmannian
  * May 16: Jake Quinn: Double affine Hecke algebra representations
  * May 23: Jake Quinn: Double affine Hecke algebra representations (cont.)
  * May 30: Mary Claire Simone: Plethysm
  * June 6: Timothy Blanton: Chip-firing

=== Winter 2025 ===
  * Week of 1/13: Soyeon Kim, Cluster algebras and plabic graphs
  * Week of 1/20: Soyeon Kim, Cluster algebras and plabic graphs
  * Week of 1/27: 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 2/03: Lisa Johnston, {{ ::symmetric_functions_tableaux_.pdf | A crash course on symmetric functions and Young tableaux Pt.2}}
  * Week of 2/10: Jon Erickson, Grassmannians and flag manifolds
  * Week of 2/17: Jon Erickson, Grassmannians and flag manifolds
  * Week of 2/24: Timothy Paczynski, Toric varieties
  * Week of 3/3: Anouk Brose, Intro to polytopes, lattice polytopes and Ehrhart Theory
  * Week of 3/10: Brittney Marsters, Ehrhart Theory and Hilbert Series: Semigroup Edition

Note: The organizers are planning to give talks for the first several weeks, but anyone is welcome to speak. Talks which have two parts should be independent enough that anyone attending the second talk (but not the first) can still follow along and learn.

===== Topic Ideas =====

The most commonly asked question, especially for new graduate students, is: "I would
like to speak, but I don't know what to talk about!  What can I give a talk on?"

The list is a work in progress - check back soon for updates. Suggestions are welcome!
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