Combinatorics and integrable systems
Fall 2011, Monday 2pm - 3:00pm, Evans Hall 891
891 Evans Hall
Organizer: Lauren Williams

This is an informal reading seminar which will focus on combinatorics and integrable systems. The course control number is 54656.

Reading list:


DATE SPEAKER TITLE (click for an abstract)
August 29 Lauren Williams Organizational meeting
September 5 Labor Day (no seminar)
September 12 RTG conference (no seminar)
September 19 Harold Williams Introduction to integrable systems
September 26 Lauren Williams What is a cluster algebra?
October 3 Kevin Schaeffer Overview of the Goncharov-Kenyon paper
October 10 Kevin Schaeffer Overview of the Goncharov-Kenyon paper II
October 17 Harold Williams Overview of the Goncharov-Kenyon paper III
October 24 No seminar
TUES. Nov. 1, 2-3pm Harold Williams Overview of the Goncharov-Kenyon paper IV
November 7 Christian Korff On the Verlinde algebra
November 14 Lauren Williams Introduction to the KP equation
November 21 Harold Williams The KP hierarchy
November 28 Shamil Shakirov The KP hierarchy II
December 5 Gus Schrader The KP hierarchy III