Waterloo Combinatorics Seminar
This is the website for the Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics Seminar at the University of Waterloo. We view algebraic combinatorics broadly, explictly including algebraic enumeration and related asymptotic and bijective combinatorics as well as algebraic combinatorics as it appears in pure algebra and in applications outside mathematics.
We begin with a pre-seminar which is designed to get participants up to speed on useful and interesting background for the talk. It will be at the level for beginning grad students. Then there will be a short coffee break followed by the seminar itself.
Our audience consists principally of combinatorics faculty and grad students. Seminar talks are 50 minutes with questions following.
If you are speaking, we need your abstract at least a week in advance so it can make the deadline for the Friday math faculty seminar mailing.
Spring 2026
Usual location and time: 1:30 pre-seminar, 2:30 seminar, both in MC 5479.
Tuesday, May 5 in MC 6029: Siddhartha Sahi
May 21: Kaveh Mousavand
May 28: Sergio Alejandro Fernandez de Soto Guerrero
June 4 in MC 6460: Theodore Morrison
June 8 (Monday) and 9 (Tuesday) in TBD: Watch party for AlCoVE 2026, from 10am to 6pm.
June 11 in MC 6460:
June 18 in MC 6460: Scott Neville
June 25 in MC 6460: Mike Cummings
July 2: Jerónimo Valencia-Porras, Type C multiline queues and the open-boundary TASEP
July 9:
July 16: During FPSAC.
July 23:
July 30: Maryam Yekta
August 6: