Permutation Patterns 2007:

Programme

Talks will be held in lecture theatre B in the Mathematics Institute (building 15, section E3 of this map).

Monday 11 June

9:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:30 Bruce Sagan, "Monotonic Sequence Games" (abstract) (slides)
10:40-11:10 Rebecca Smith, "Almost avoiding pairs of permutations"
11:20-11:50 Coffee
11:50-12:20 Alexander Burstein, "Some more properties of permutation tableaux"


2:30-3:00 Marteinn Ţór Harđarson, "Avoidance of partially ordered generalized patterns of the form k-σ-k" (abstract) (slides)
3:10-3:40 Lara Pudwell, "Schemes for pattern-avoiding words" (abstract) (slides)
3:50-4:10 Tea
4:10-4:40 Miklós Bóna, "Where the monotone pattern (mostly) rules" (abstract) (slides)

Tuesday 12 June

9:30-10:00 Walter Stromquist, "A conjecture for the packing density of 2413" (abstract) (slides)
10:10-10:40 Adam Goyt, "Partition statistics and q-Finonacci numbers" (abstract) (slides)
10:50-11:20 Coffee
11:20-12:20 Invited Address: Martin Klazar, "Polynomial Counting" (abstract) (slides)


2:30-3:00 Vince Vatter, "Small permutation classes"
3:10-3:40 Mathilde Bouvel, "A variant of the tandem duplication - random loss model of genome rearrangement" (abstract) (slides)
3:50-4:10 Tea
4:10-4:40 Sergey Kitaev, "Generalized pattern avoidance, β(0,1)-trees, and two-stack sortable permutations" (abstract) (slides)
4:50-5:20 Cyril Banderier, "Boltzmann random generation of constrained permutations"

Wednesday 13 June

9:30-10:00 Amanda Riehl, "A generalization of the generating functions for descent statistic" (abstract) (slides)
10:10-10:40 Robert Brignall, "Simple extensions of relational structures — the permutation perspective" (abstract) (slides)
11:00-6:00 Excursion

Thursday 14 June

9:30-10:00 Roger Behrend, "Osculating paths and oscillating tableaux"
10:10-10:40 Luca Ferrari, "Enumeration of some classes of words avoiding two generalized patterns of length three" (abstract) (slides)
10:50-11:20 Coffee
11:20-12:20 Invited Address: Mike Atkinson, "Simple permutations and wreath-closed pattern classes" (abstract) (slides)


2:30-3:00 Guoce Xin, "Enumeration of k-stack sortable matchings and partitions" (abstract) (slides)
3:10-3:40 Julian West, "Games with permutations" (abstract) (slides)
3:50- Tea & Problem Session
7:00- Banquet

Friday 15 June

10:00-10:30 Eric Egge, "Restricted symmetric permutations"
10:40-11:10 Jeffrey Liese, "Q-counting descent pairs with prescribed tops and bottoms"
11:20-11:50 Coffee
11:50-12:20 Michael Albert, "Aspects of separability" (abstract) (slides)