date	speaker	affiliation	title (click for an abstract)
September 13	Seth Sullivant	UC Berkeley	Finiteness theorems for Markov bases of hierarchical models
September 20	Persi Diaconis	Stanford	The "Birthday Problem" and Chromatic Polynomials
September 27	Anne Schilling	UC Davis	X=M for symmetric powers
October 4	Christopher Hillar	UC Berkeley	Finite Generation of Symmetric Ideals in a countable number of variables
October 11	Greg Blekherman	U. Michigan	Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Squares
October 18	Brian Rothbach	UC Berkeley	The Combinatorics of the Borel orbit structure of $X^2=0$ in $sl_n$
October 25	Tony Mendes	Cal Poly	Using symmetric functions to find generating functions
November 1	Alexander Postnikov	M.I.T.	Permutohedra, associahedra, and beyond
(!!) November 3 (!!)	Mike Develin	American Institute of Mathematics	A new proof of Stanley's reciprocity theorem
November 8	Jason Bell	U. Michigan	Some new methods in the theory of quasi-invariants
November 15	Thomas Lam	M.I.T.	Affine Stanley symmetric functions
November 22	Esther Lamken	Caltech/UC Berkeley	Scheduling CCRR tournaments
November 29	No seminar.
December 6	Nantel Bergeron	York University	Combinatorial Hopf Algebra and representations
January 31	Nat Thiem	Stanford University	Unipotent Hecke algebras
(!!) February 1 (!!)	Christopher Hanusa	University of Washington	A Gessel-Viennot-Type Method for Cycle Systems
February 14	Elwyn Berlekamp	UC Berkeley	Combinatorial Games
(!!) February 24 (!!)	Ezra Miller	U. Minnesota	Balls of tableaux and words in Coxeter groups
February 28	Fu Liu	MIT	(k,m)-Catalan Numbers and Hook Length Polynomials for Trees
(!!) March 1 (!!)	Nathan Reading	U. Michigan	Clusters, c-sortable elements and noncrossing partitions
March 7	Dan Romik	MSRI	The limit shape of random square Young tableaux
(!!) March 9 (!!)	Van Vu	UC San Diego	New results on random matrices
March 14	Steven Butler	UC San Diego	On permutations which are 1324 and 2143 avoiding
March 28	Roman Vershynin	UC Davis	Geometric perspective of error correcting codes
April 5	Yuval Roichman	Bar Ilan University/UC San Diego	Abstract Young Tableaux
April 11	Mihai Ciucu	Georgia Tech	A random tiling model for two dimensional electrostatics
May 2	Aaron Siegel	UC Berkeley	Lattices of Partizan Games