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Combinatorics & algebra seminar 2025-2026

Spring 2026

Unless otherwise noted, talks are scheduled on Tuesday afternoon, 4–5.

Date Speaker Institution Title
1/20
1/27 Jeff Adler American U
2/3
2/10
2/17
2/24
3/3
3/17
3/24
3/31
4/7
4/14
4/21
Fall 2025
Date Speaker Institution Title
10/1 Joel Lewis GWU Factorizations of Singer cycles in linear and unitary groups
10/15 Sam Hopkins Howard Order polynomial product formulas and poset dynamics
10/22 Zachery Peterson William and Mary ​SLk-Tilings and Paths in Zk
10/29 Greg Robson U. Primorska On the bi-Cayley isomorphism problem
11/12 Kayla Wright JHU Webs and Grassmannian Cluster Algebras
11/19 Joe Bonin GWU Characterizations of certain matroids by maximizing valuative invariants

The seminar is co-organized by Sam Hopkins (Howard), Joel Lewis, Minh-Tâm Trinh (Howard), and Robert Won. For titles and abstracts from past seminars, see the combinatorics seminar archive.