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A Friendly Introduction to the Plactic Monoid
Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar| Speaker: | Steve Pon, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, Jan 17 2008, 3:10PM |
The plactic monoid is a wonderful structure in combinatorics that has immediate application to symmetric functions and representation theory (eg, Littlewood-Richardson rule), as well as group theory, physics and geometry. I'll define it and talk a little about some applications. This talk is intended to be accessible.