Winter Meeting 2004  of the 

SESSION IN ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS   AT 

McGill University - Montréal - CANADA

December 11 - 13, 2004


    Presentation

At the CMS Winter Meeting 2004 in Montreal there will be a special session in Algebraic Combinatorics. Topics include all aspects of algebraic combinatorics and their relations with other parts of mathematics. One particular focus will be on recent work concerning relations among symmetric functions.

    Invited Speakers

Nantel Bergeron York University
Francesco Brenti University of Rome Tor Vergata
Sergey Fomin University of Michigan
Adriano Garsia University of California San Diego
Ian Goulden University of Waterloo
David Jackson University of Waterloo
Mercedes Rosas York University
Mark Skandera Dartmouth College
Richard Stanley Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Stembridge                      University of Michigan
Stephanie van Willigenburg University of British Columbia
Mike Zabrocki York University

All talks will be 45 minutes. Also of potential interest to combinatorialists at the Winter meeting are the plenary lecture by Persi Diaconis, entitled "A mathematician flips a coin," and the Coxeter-James Prize lecture of Izabella Laba, entitled "Harmonic analysis and combinatorics: Are we there yet?"

    Program

All talks will take place in the St. Leonard room at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel.

Saturday 11th December
10.15-11.00 Sergey Fomin Catalan Combinatorics of Arbitrary type
11.00-11.45 Francesco Brenti Combinatorics of parabolic Kazhdan-Lusztig and R-polynomials for Hermitian symmetric pairs
4.00-4.45 John Stembridge Graded multiplicities in the Macdonald kernel and a bi-graded co-invariant algebra
5.00-5.45 Mike Zabrocki Pattern avoidance and regular languages
Sunday 12th December
8.30-9.15 David Jackson Combinatorial aspects of the Temperley-Lieb algebra
9.30-10.15 Mark Skandera Schur nonnegative polynomials
3.00-3.45 Stephanie van Willigenburg Decomposable compositions and equality of ribbon Schur functions
4.00-4.45 Nantel Bergeron Hopf algebra and representation: the Hecke-Clifford case
Monday 13th December
8.30-9.15 Ian Goulden A direct bijection for the Harer-Zagier formula
9.30-10.15 Mercedes Rosas Noncommutative invariants and coinvariants of the symmetric group
3.00-3.45 Adriano Garsia Some open problems in the Theory of m-Quasi-Invariants
4.00-4.45 Richard Stanley Crossings, nestings, oscillating tableaux, and vacillating tableaux

    Organizing Committee  

François Bergeron              
Riccardo Biagioli
Peter McNamara
Christophe Reutenauer

    Sponsor  

This special session in Algebraic Combinatorics has been made possible by the support of the LaCIM, the Laboratoire de combinatoire et d'informatique mathématique of the Université du Québec à Montréal