Series: Mathematics Colloquium

Date: Thursday, January 30, 2003

Time: 4:30 - 5:30 PM

Place: 102 McAllister Building

Host: George Andrews

Refreshments: 4:00 - 4:30 PM, in 212 McAllister

Speaker: Ae Ja Yee, University of Illinois

Title: Partition Identities and Combinatorial Proofs

Abstract:

Many partition identities have been proved in combinatorial ways since
Euler, and the theory of partitions has played an important role in
developing enumerative combinatorics.  In this talk, we discuss
partition identities and how to prove such identities in combinatorial
ways with examples.  In particular, we focus on Frobenius partitions
and their applications.