Combinatorial Algebra
meets
Algebraic Combinatorics

Fifteenth Annual Meeting
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
January 26 - 28, 2018

Description

This meeting is a continuation of previous annual workshops focusing on the interplay between commutative algebra (e.g., resolutions and inverse systems) and algebraic combinatorics (e.g.,the representation theory of symmetric groups). Links to the previous workshops can be found here .

Dates

Talks will run from Friday, January 26 through Sunday, January 28 2018, inclusive.

Invited Speakers

The following people have agreed to be our main speakers.

Session Speakers

The following people will be giving 30 minute presentations.

Registration and Participants

Registration for the conference will be through the Fields Institute website. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!. Use the following link: Registration will be free, but we ask that you register so that we can anticipate numbers. If you have any questions, you can contact the organizers at caac2018mcmaster@gmail.com.

See the Fields website for a current list of registered participants

Funding

Funding has now been distributed.

Location

All talks will take place in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University. The department is in Hamilton Hall (building number 2 in the map below):

A printable version is here: Map

PARKING: The green on the above maps indicates the parking lots; the lots closest to the department are Lots B, C, and I. The fees depend on which lot you park at. The rates can be found here. Rates are cheaper on the weekend.

DIRECTIONS: If you are staying at Staybridge, the drive to McMaster is about 10 minutes. Public transportation takes about 20 minutes. Take Bus 1 or Bus 51. For more information, see here. If you are staying at the Vistor's Inn, here are some directions.

Schedule

Below is the schedule. All talks will be in either Hamilton Hall 109 or 305
Fri, Jan. 26
2:00-2:30PM 		REGISTRATION
(2nd Floor Lobby - Math Cafe)
Fri, Jan. 26
2:30-3:00PM 		Shu Xiao Li Theta maps for combinatorial Hopf algebras
Fri, Jan. 26
3:00-3:30PM 		REGISTRATION AND
COFFEE
(2nd Floor Lobby - Math Cafe)
Fri, Jan. 26
3:30-4:30PM 		Elizabeth Milićević Flag Varieties and Alcove Walks
This talk is also the department colloquium
Fri, Jan. 26
4:30-6:30 		CONFERENCE RECEPTION
(University Club)
Come for some appetizers and socializing
Sat, Jan. 27
9:00-9:50 		Johannes Hofscheier Lattice simplices of bounded degree
Sat, Jan. 27
9:50-10:20 		COFFEE BREAK
(2nd Floor Lobby - Math Cafe)
Sat, Jan. 27
10:20-10:50 		Jonathan Toledo Strong persistence property for monomial ideals
Sat, Jan. 27
11:00-11:30 		Joel Kamnitzer Crystals and monodromy of Bethe vectors
Sat, Jan. 27
11:40-12:10 		Martha Precup The cohomology of abelian Hessenberg varieties
Sat, Jan. 27
12:10--2:00 		LUNCH (Pizza Provided)
(2nd Floor Lobby - Math Cafe)
Sat, Jan. 27
2:00--2:50 		Franco Saliola A Murnaghan-Nakayama Rule for
Quantum Cohomology of the Flag Manifold
Sat, Jan. 27
3:00--3:30 		Nursel Erey Regularity of powers of 2K_2-free graphs
Sat, Jan. 27
3:30-4:00 		COFFEE BREAK
(2nd Floor Lobby - Math Cafe)
Sat, Jan. 27
4:00--4:30 		Laura Colmenajaro A minimal-preserving crystal on ordered multiset partitions
Sat, Jan. 27
4:40-5:10 		Mayada Shahada A combinatorial method using the verbal
and marginal properties of associative algebras
Sun, Jan. 28
9:00--9:50 		Jenna Rajchot On the algebra generated by three commuting matrices
Sun, Jan. 28
9:50--10:20 		COFFEE BREAK
(2nd Floor Lobby - Math Cafe)
Sun, Jan. 28
10:20--10:50 		Tianyuan Xu Classification of Coxeter groups with finitely many elements
of a-value 2
Sun, Jan. 28
11:00-11:30 		Kuei-Nuan Lin Edge ideals of oriented graphs
Sun, Jan. 28
11:40-12:10 		Francois Bergeron Structure of generic modules of diagonal harmonic polynomials,
and elliptic Hall algebra


Hotels

There are a number of hotels in Hamilton that are within a 5 to 10 minute drive from campus. You can use the following map to find a hotel.


We have blocked off a number of rooms at the Staybridge Suites. The rate is $135.00/night plus taxes (parking is another $12.50/night). To obtain this rate, you need to reserve your room by December 25, 2017. You will need to call the hotel directly, and tell them you are part of the McMaster Math Conference.

Travel Information

For more information on traveling to McMaster, please see McMaster's webpage on directions to campus.

Contact Information

You can use the email address caac2018mcmaster@gmail.com for all questions.

Organizers

Sponsors

We would like to thank the following organizations for their support of this conference.


      
Last Updated: Jan 10, 2018