Spring 2024


Organizers: Pierre Clare and Rob Carman

The seminar meets on Wednesdays at 2pm, in Jones 302. Email for information or to be added to the mailing list.

Next talk (Apr. 24)

Celia Kerr'26 & Nick Russoniello

Southwest Diagrams and Their Kohnert Posets

Abstract: This talk is a continuation of the presentation ``Shellability of Kohnert posets" given last week. In this talk, we proceed in our quest for a full characterization of graded and (EL-)shellable Kohnert posets. In addition to expanding upon results established during the previous talk, we focus on families of Kohnert diagrams that are of historical and representation-theoretic importance; namely, key diagrams and Rothe diagrams. Key diagrams and Rothe diagrams correspond to Demazure characters and Schubert polynomials, respectively, and both families of diagrams are examples of so-called ``southwest" diagrams. Our presentation will conclude with a conjectured characterization of graded and (EL-)shellable southwest diagrams. Examples and some brief background will be included; however, we assume most of the preliminaries established during the previous talk. The work here represents a portion of an undergraduate research project that began in Spring 2023.


4/24Celia Kerr'26 & Nick RussonielloSouthwest diagrams and their Kohnert posets
4/17Celia Kerr'26 & Nick RussonielloShellability of Kohnert posets (Slides)
4/10Run Zheng (Hong Kog Poly. U.)Linear maps preserving certain unitarily invariant norms of tensor products
4/03Sarah DayTDA — a role for algebraic topology in analyzing models and data (Slides)
3/27Fan GeLogarithmic Derivative of Riemann $\zeta$ and its Random Matrices Analogues, II
3/20Vladimir BolotnikovCarathéodory interpolation problem over quaternions (Slides)
3/06Ethan Shelburne (UBC)The Schur-positivity of generalized nets (Slides)
2/28Joshua Erlich (W&M Physics)Stochastic processes, quantum fields, and gravity
2/07Reem Mahmoud (VCU)Equitable coloring in 1-planar graphs (Slides)