Special session on algebraic combinatorics in Mainz, Germany:

The second joint meeting of the American/Austrian/German Math. Societies will be held June 16-19, 2005. In addition to our special session on algebraic combinatorics, there will be sessions on related topics at the same meeting include a session on discrete geometry and a session on Hilbert functions and syzygies.

Here is the official conference web site, where you can register for the conference and find other information on things like hotels.

Mainz is not hard to get to within Europe, in that it is a half hour train ride from the Frankfurt airport. This joint meeting is also immediately before FPSAC in Taormina, Italy (June 20-25), which we hope will make it more convenient for some people to travel to Europe.

Schedule for our Special Session:

June 16:

--11:00-11:25am -- John Shareshian -- Washington U. in St. Louis (USA) -- "Conjectures on intervals in subgroup lattices of finite groups"

--1:00-1:25pm -- Eva Maria Feichtner -- ETH Zurich (Switzerland) -- "Nested set complexes and spaces of trees"
--1:30-1:55pm -- Carsten Schneider -- Linz (Austria) -- "When is 0.999...equal to 1?"
--2:00-2:25pm -- Peter Paule -- Linz (Austria) -- "MacMahon's dream came true"
--2:30-2:55pm -- Michael Joswig -- Technische Universitaet-Darmstadt (Germany) -- "Balancing Newton polytopes"
--3:00-3:25pm -- Sergi Elizalde -- MSRI (USA) -- "Inference functions and sequence alignment"

--4:00-4:25pm -- Christos Athanasiadis -- University of Crete (Greece) -- "Shellability of noncrossing partition lattices"
--4:30-4:55pm -- Mark Haiman -- UC Berkeley (USA) -- "A combinatorial formula for Macdonald polynomials"
--5:00-5:25pm -- Jim Haglund -- Penn (USA) -- "Genesis of Macdonald polynomial statistics"
--5:30-5:55pm -- Fred Butler -- West Virginia University (USA) -- "Cycle counting p,q rook theory and the p,q,y-Stirling numbers of the second kind"
--6:00-6:25pm -- Lauren Williams -- MIT (USA) -- "Posets from total positivity"
June 17:

--1:00-1:25pm -- Cristian Lenart -- SUNY Albany (USA) -- "Generalizing the combinatorics of Young tableaux to arbitrary Lie type"
--1:30-1:55pm -- Christine Bessenrodt -- Hannover (Germany) -- "On cores of partitions and character separation"
--2:00-2:25pm -- Cristina Ballantine -- College of the Holy Cross (USA) -- "On the Kronecker product s_{(n-p;p)}*s_l" -- (with Rosa Orellana)
--2:30-2:55pm -- Harald Hengelbrock -- Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (Germany) -- "Rim hooks and quantum Schubert calculus"
--3:00-3:25pm -- Ilse Fischer -- University of Vienna (Austria) -- "The number of monotone triangles with prescribed bottom row"
June 18:

--12:30-12:55pm --Mihai Ciucu -- Georgia Tech (USA)-- "A random tiling model for two dimensional electrostatics"
--1:00-1:25pm -- Astrid Reifegerste -- Hannover (Germany) -- "Decreasing subsequences in permutations and Wilf equivalance"
--1:30-1:55pm -- Theresia Eisenkoelbl -- Universitaet Wien (Austria) -- "2-enumerations of halved alternating sign matrices"
--2:00-2:25pm -- Soichi Okada -- Nagoya (Japan) -- "Variations on Cauchy's determinant and Schur's Pfaffian"
--2:30-2:55pm -- Heinrich Niederhausen -- Florida Atlantic University (USA) -- "Linear operators and functionals are tools for lattice paths enumeration"

Special Session Organizers:

Patricia Hersh -- Indiana University (USA)
Christian Krattenthaler -- Lyon (Austria/France)
Volkmar Welker -- Marburg (Germany)