The topic of the first semester of this year is "Wonderful models". We will try to read parts of the following important articles:

[DP] De Concini, Procesi "Wonderful models of subspace arrangements", pdf

[G] Gaiffi "Blowups and cohomology bases for De Concini-Procesi models of subspace arrangements", pdf

[FY] Feichtner, Yuzvinsky "Chow rings of toric varieties defined by atomic lattices", pdf

The topic of the second semester of this year is "Integrable systems and combinatorics". We will extract our reading material from the following sources:

[D] Deift "Integrable Systems and Combinatorial Theory", pdf

[W] Wolf " Random Matrix Theory: A Combinatorial Proof of Wigner's Semicircle Law ", link

[Z] Zvonkin "Matrix integrals and map enumeration: an accessible introduction", pdf

[C] Chapuy "Rencontres autour de la combinatoire des cartes", pdf

[O] Okunkov "Random Matrices and Random Permutations", pdf

The topic of the first semester of this year is "Lorentzian polynomials". We will try to read parts of the following important article:

[BH] Brändén, Huh "Lorentzian polynomials", pdf

The topic of the second semester of this year is "h-vectors of simplicial complexes". We will aim at understanding the following important article:

[St] Stanley "Subdivisions and local h-vectors", pdf

The topic of the first semester of this year is "Harmonics and graded Ehrhart theory". We will try to read the following important article:

[RR] Rhoades, Reiner "Harmonics and graded Ehrhart theory", pdf

Other relevant references are:

[BR] Beck, Robins "Computing the Continuous Descretely", pdf

The topic of this year is “Toric varieties”. We will be using the following references:

[Telen] Telen, “Introduction to toric geometry”, pdf

[Pegel] Pegel, “Chow Rings of Toric Varieties”, pdf

[Procesi], “The toric variety associated to Weyl chambers”, pdf

The topic of this year is "Macdonald polynomials and ASEP". We will be mainly reading literature related to the following important article:

[CMW] Corteel, Mandelshtam, Williams "From multiline queues to Macdonald polynomials via the exclusion process", Amer. J. Math. 144 (2022), no. 2