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A Friendly Introduction to the Plactic Monoid
Student-Run Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Steve Pon, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, Jan 17 2008, 3:10PM |
Description
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.