In the first semester of this year the topic of the seminar is "Graph theory". We will follow mainly the book by Diestel.

[D] Diestel, "Graph theory" 2nd edition, 2000

In the second semester of this year the topic of the seminar is the "Sandpile model". We will take the topics mainly from the book by Corry and Perkinson and from an article of Cori and Le Borgne. Though very much related to the content of the first semester, this seminar can be followed as well by anyone that did not participate in the first semester.

[CP] Divisors and Sandpiles: An Introduction to Chip-Firing, 2010

[CL] Cori, Le Borgne, "The sandpile model and Tutte polynomials", 2003

In the first semester of this year the topic of the seminar is the "Dollar game". We will follow mainly the book by Corry and Perkinson.

[CP] Divisors and Sandpiles: An Introduction to Chip-Firing, 2010

In the second semester of this year the topic of the seminar is "Hyperplane arrangements". We will follow mainly the lecture notes by Richard Stanley: 

[Stanley] Stanley, "An introduction fo Hyperplane arrangements", 2006

In the first semester of this year the topic of the seminar is "Matroids". We will follow mainly the lecture notes by Vic Reiner: 

[Reiner] Reiner, "Lectures on matroids and oriented matroids", 2005

This year the topic of the seminar is "Combinatorial reciprocity theorems". We will be reading the beautiful book by Beck and Sanyal:

[BS] Beck, Sanyal "Combinatorial reciprocity theorems: An invitation to enumerative geometric combinatorics", AMS, 2018