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CAGE: Philadelphia Area Combinatorics and Alg. Geometry Seminar

Friday, May 5, 2017 - 3:30pm

Sergey Fomin

University of Michigan

Location

Drexel University

Lebow Hall Room 033

(part of MAAGC 2017 conference)

The problem of expanding various families of symmetric functions in the basis of Schur functions arises in many mathematical contexts such as combinatorial representation theory and Schubert calculus. I will discuss an approach to this problem that employs noncommutative analogues of Schur functions. The talk is based on joint work with Jonah Blasiak and Curtis Greene.