date	speaker	affiliation	title (click for an abstract)
January 26	June Huh	UIUC	Representable homology classes in the product of projective spaces
February 1 (Tuesday) AH 241, 3pm	Philippe Di Francesco	CEA Saclay	Proof of the Alternating Sign Matrix/Descending Plane Partition conjecture
February 9	Bruce Reznick	UIUC	Apolarity, steampunk canonical forms and the obvious inner product (a preliminary report)
February 23	Steven Sam	MIT	Schubert complexes and degeneracy loci
March 16	Hamid Kulosman	University of Louisville	Zero-divisor graphs of some special semigroups
March 23	No Seminar	Spring Break
March 26 (Saturday)	J. Validashti, J. Lipman, E. Mukhin, D. Anderson	Location: Purdue University	Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Day
March 30, 2pm, location: 7 Illini Hall	Russ Woodroofe	Washington University in St. Louis	Erd-Ko-Rado Theorems for simplicial complexes
March 30, 3pm	Daniel Morton	UIUC	GKM Manifolds With Low Betti Numbers
April 6	Jeb Willenbring	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	Graph Coverings, Quantum Entanglement, and Invariant Theory
April 13	Kevin Purbhoo	University of Waterloo	Wronskians and the Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon
April 20	Bruce Reznick	UIUC	Apolarity, steampunk canonical forms and the obvious inner product -- April remix
May 18, 12pm, AH 241	Graham Denham	University of Western Ontario	The ubiquitous characteristic polynomial