Organizers

• Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
• Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University

Invited Speakers (Confirmed):

• Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University, Asymptotics of Ehrhart series of Lattice Polytopes
• Benjamin Braun , University of Kentucky, The Complex of Non-Crossing Diagonals of a Polygon
• Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky, The ${\bf c}{\bf d}$-index of Bruhat and Balanced Graphs
• Christine Heitsch , Georgia Institute of Technology, Meanders and RNA Folding
• Serkan Hosten , San Francisco State University, Phylogenetic Tree Spaces and Phylogenetic Reconstruction Algorithms.
• Matthias Köppe, University of California, Davis, Efficient exact integration of polynomials over polytopes.
• Ezra Miller , Duke University, Topological Cohen--Macaulay criteria for monomial ideals.
• Carlos Nicolas , University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Defining $k$-triangulations for points in general position in the
• Megan Owen , SAMSI, Geometry of Cophylogeny
• Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Basis reduction, and the complexity of branch-and-bound.
• Peter Paule , RISC, University of Linz, Broken Diamonds and Partition Congruences
• Bruce Sagan , Michigan State University and NSF, Rationality, irrationality, and Wilf equivalence in generalized factor order.
• Andrew Sills , Georgia Southern University, A new look at the partition identities of Goellnitz.
• John Stembridge , University of Michigan, Admissible $W$-Graphs and Commuting Cartan Matrices.
• Mustafa Tural , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, On sublattice determinants in reduced bases
• Kevin Woods , Oberlin College, Combinatorics and Graphical Models: investigating inference functions.
• Alexander Yong , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Longest strictly increasing subsequences and the Hecke insertion algorithm.
• Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky, On connectivity of fibers with positive marginals in multiple logistic regression.

Related Special Sessions at the Meeting

• Invited Addresses
  • Nathan M. Dunfield , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
  • Jonathan C. Mattingly , Duke University
  • Raman Parimala , Emory University

• Rings, Algebras, and Varieties in Combinatorics
  • Patricia Hersh , North Carolina State University
  • Christian Lenart , SUNY Albany
  • Nathan Reading , North Carolina State University
• Recent Advances in Symbolic Algebra and Analysis
  • Michael F. Singer , North Carolina State University
  • Agnes Szanto , North Carolina State University
• Kac-Moody Algebras, Vertex Algebras, Quantum Groups, and Applications
  • Bojko N. Bakalov , North Carolina State University
  • Kailash C. Misra , North Carolina State University
  • Naihuan N. Jing , North Carolina State University
• Enumerative Geometry and Related Topics
  • Richard Rimanyi , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Leonardo C. Mihalcea , Duke University
• Homotopical Algebra with Applications to Mathematical Physics
  • Thomas J. Lada , North Carolina State University
  • Jim Stasheff , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry
  • Nathan M. Dunfield , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • John B. Etnyre , Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Lenhard Ng , Duke University

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(Meeting #1048 - Special Session #2A)

Last update: February 16, 2009