Program

Minicourses:

• Isabella Novik (University of Washington): The wonderland of polytopes

• Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University): Ehrhart polynomials 

Plenary talk:

• Kris Shaw (University of Oslo): Algebraic, tropical, and combinatorial geometries

Contributed talks:

• Jonathan Nino-Cortes (University of Washington): The convex algebraic geometry of higher rank numerical ranges 

• Sofía Garzón Mora (Freie Universität Berlin): On the spectra of Fine polyhedral adjoints 

• Alexander Vidinas (Cornell University): Log-convcavity of the Alexander polynomial 

• Fernando Diaz Morera (Tulane University): Symmetric spaces and shellability 

• Denae Ventura (University of California Davis): Soluciones monocromáticas de ecuaciones en los enteros 

• Sophie Rehberg (Freie Universität Berlin): Acyclotopes and Tocyclotopes 

• Warut Thawinrak (University of California Davis): Faces of Parking Function Polytopes

Minicourses:

• Hal Schenck (Auburn University): Combina-Torics 

• Cynthia Vinzant (University of Washington): Real rootedness, log-concavity, and matroids 

Plenary talk:

• Luis Nuñez (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT)): Frobenius methods in combinatorics 

Contributed talks:

• Ernesto Vallejo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): On the computation of Kronecker coefficients  

• Danai Deligeorgaki (KTH): Inequalities for f^*-vectors of lattice polytopes  

• Kimberly Harry (UW-Milwaukee): Computing the q-Multiplicity of the Positive Roots of sl_(r+1) (C) and Products of Fibonacci Numbers 

• Ethan Partida (Brown University): Shifted and threshold matroids  

• Maddalena Pismataro (University of Bologna): Cohomology ring of abelian arrangements 

• Daniel Blanquicett Tordecilla (Universidad de Sucre): Probabilistic combinatorics 

• Criel Merino (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): The critical group of an orientable ribbon graph