The Algebra and Combinatorics seminar is devoted to studying algebra, combinatorics, their interconnection, and their relations to mathematics and applications.

This semester the seminar's organizer is Chris Hillar.

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History of previous Alg/Comb seminars.

		January 18	Marcelo Aguiar   TAMU
		3:00-4:00	Bimonoids in species
		January 25	Christopher Hillar   TAMU
		3:00-4:00	A finiteness question of Sturmfels
		February 1	Eric Rowell   TAMU
		3:00-4:00	Unitarizability of pre-modular categories
		February 4	Bill Schmitt   George Washington    (Special Time on Monday!)
		3:00-4:00	The Whitney algebra of a matroid
		February 8	Geir Helleloid   UT Austin
		3:00-4:00	Automorphism Groups of Finite p-Groups
		February 15	--No Talk (Hiring Colloquium)--
		February 22	Deepak Naidu   UNH
		3:00-4:00	Lagrangian subcategories of twisted quantum doubles of finite groups
		February 25	Charles Conley   U. North Texas    (Room Milner 216 on Monday!)
		3:00-4:00	Contact vector fields on the superline
		February 29	Muriel Livernet   MIT and Universite Paris 13
		3:00-4:00	Posets, Groups and Hopf algebras associated to a set-operad
		March 7	Rob Ellis   IIT
		3:00-4:00	Recent results in liar games
		March 14	--Spring Break--
		March 17	Bruce Reznick   UIUC    (Joint with Algebraic Geometry on Monday!)
		3:00-4:00	On Hilbert's construction of positive polynomials which are not a sum of squares
		March 21	Rosena Du   East China Normal University
		3:00-4:00	Counting Labelled Trees with Given Indegree Sequence
		March 28	Gregory Berkolaiko   TAMU
		3:00-4:00	The number of inequivalent minimal factorizations of an n-cycle
		April 4	Xingxing Yu   Georgia Institute of Technology
		3:00-4:00	On judicious partitions of graphs
		April 9	Mitja Mastnak   University of Waterloo    (Special Time 4pm Milner 317 on Wednesday!)
		4:00-5:00	On (combinatorial) Hopf algebras extensions
		April 11	Vladimir Retakh   Rutgers
		3:00-4:00	Algebras Associated to Directed Acyclic Graphs
		April 18	Hong-Jian Lai   West Virginia University    (Special Time 2pm)
		2:00-3:00	Group Connectivity of Graphs
		April 25	Eric Rowell   TAMU
		3:00-4:00	Wild conjectures in topological quantum computation