================================================ 17th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics ================================================ FPSAC'05 =============================================== June 20-25, 2005 Taormina, Italy =============================================== THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT - REGISTRATION OPENS Topics All aspects of combinatorics and their relations with other parts of mathematics, physics, computer science and biology. Website The conference website is at http://www.unime.it/fpsac05/ .The list of all speakers and poster sessions is now on the website. It is also now possible to register for the conference and book accommodation there. Official languages The official languages of the conference are English and French. Invited Speakers Christine Bessenrodt, Universitat Hannover (Germany) Corrado De Concini, University of Rome (Italy) Serge Dulucq, Université de Bordeaux 1,(France) Ronald King, University of Southampton, (UK) Renzo Pinzani, University of Florence (Italy) Jeff Remmel, University of California, San Diego (USA) Invited Speakers-special session The partial list of speakers is available on the conference web site at http://www.unime.it/fpsac05/ CONTRIBUTED TALKS Federico Ardila, Victor Reiner, Lauren Williams, Bergman complexes, Coxeter arrangements, and graph associahedra L. Babai and E. Toumpakari, A Structure Theory of the Sandpile Semigroup for Digraphs M. Bousquet-Melou and E. Steingrimsson, Decreasing subsequences in permutations and Wilf-equivalence for involutions Anders Skovsted Buch, Andrew Kresch, Mark Shimozono, Harry Tamvakis, and Alexander Yong, Stable Grothendieck polynomials and K-theoretic factor sequences Vladimir Danilov and Gleb Koshevoy, The octahedron recursion and combinatorics of arrays Lipika Deka and Anne Schilling, New explicit expression for $A_n^{(1)}$ supernomials P. Desrosiers, L. Lapointe, and P. Mathieu, A symmetric function theory in superspace Theresia Eisenkölbl, (-1)-enumeration of self-complementary plane partitions Florent Hivert, Local Action of the Symmetric Group and Generalizations of Quasi-Symmetric Functions Eric Fusy, Counting unrooted maps using tree-decomposition Victor Guillemin and Etienne Rassart, A q-analogue of the Kostant partition function and twisted representations A J Guttmann, I Jensen and M Bousquet-Melou, Self-avoiding walks crossing a square J. Haglund, The Genesis of the Macdonald Polynomial Statistics John Hall, Combinatorial Deformations of the Full Transformation Semigroup Axel Hultman, The combinatorics of twisted involutions in Coxeter groups Federico Incitti,Combinatorial invariance of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for short intervals in the symmetric group Masao Ishikawa, A Proof of Stanley's Open Problem Masao Ishikawa, Soichi Okada, Hiroyuki Tagawa and Jiang Zeng, Generalizations of Cauchy's Determinant and Schur's Pfaffian Thomas Lam, Affine Stanley symmetric functions Fu Liu, Ehrhart Polynomials of Cyclic Polytopes Nicholas A. Loehr and Gregory S. Warrington, Square q,t-lattice paths and nabla(p_n) Peter McNamara, Positivity questions for cylindric skew Schur functions Alexander Mednykh, Counting non-equivalent coverings and non-isomorphic maps for Riemann surfaces Alexander Postnikov, Permutohedra, associahedra, and beyond Brendon Rhoades, Mark Skandera, Kazhdan-Lusztig immanants and products of matrix minors Michael Shapiro and Alek Vainshtein, Double Hurwitz numbers and the intersection form on the moduli space in genus 0 Piotr Sniady, Asymptotics of characters of symmetric groups and free probability Takeshi Suzuki and Monica Vazirani, Affine Tableaux and the Double Affine Hecke Algebra S. Ole Warnaar, Hall--Littlewood functions and the A_2 Rogers--Ramanujan identities CONTRIBUTED POSTERS Sergei A. Abramov, Marko Petkovsek, Solution Spaces of H-Systems and the Ore- Sato Theorem Marcelo Aguiar, Walter Ferrer, and Walter Moreira, The smash product of symmetric functions Marcelo Aguiar and Rosa C. Orellana, The Hopf algebra of uniform block permutations Tsiry Andriamampianina and Vlady Ravelomanana, Enumeration of Connected Uniform Hypergraphs Eli Bagno and Riccardo Biagioli, Combinatorics and Representations of Complex Reflection Groups $G(r,p,n)$ Eli Bagno and David Garber, On the excedance number of colored permutation groups Cristina M. Ballantine and Rosa C. Orellana, On the Kronecker Product $s_{(n- p,p)}*s_{\lambda}$ Elena Barcucci, Antonio Bernini, Luca Ferrari, Maddalena Poneti, A distributive lattice structure on noncrossing partitions Yuliy Baryshnikov, On the cohomology ring of no k-equal manifolds Olivier Bernardi, On triangulations with high vertex degree Manuel Bodirsky, Clemens Gröpl, Daniel Johannsen, Mihyun Kang, A Direct Decomposition of 3-connected Planar Graphs Miklos Bona, The Limit of a Stanley-Wilf sequence is not always an integer Cilanne Boulet, Igor Pak, A new combinatorial proof of the Rogers-Ramanujan and Schur identities Alexander Burstein, Isaiah Lankham, Combinatorics of Patience Sorting Piles Fred Butler, Some symmetry and unimodality properties of the q,x,y-hit numbers Giuseppa Carra' Ferro and Daniela Ferrarello, Deciding the Cohen Macaulay property for bipartite graphs G. Castiglione, A. Frosini, E. Munarini, A. Restivo, S. Rinaldi, Enumeration of $L$-convex polyominoes, II. Bijection and area Yona Cherniavsky and Eli Bagno, Permutation representations on invertible matrices Sylvie Corteel, Richard Brak, Andrew Rechnitzer, John Essam, A combinatorial derivation of the PASEP algebra Sylvie Corteel, Sunyoung Lee,and Carla D. Savage, Enumeration of Sequences Constrained by the Ratio of Consecutive Parts Francois Descouens, Ribbon Tableaux, rigged configurations and Hall- Littlewood functions at roots of unity Emeric Deutsch, Sergi Elizalde, Old and young leaves on plane and binary trees Mike Develin, Jeremy Martin, and Victor Reiner, Rigidity theory for matroids Brian Drake, Weak Order on Pattern Avoiding Permutations Brian Drake, Sean Gerrish, Mark Skandera, Monomial Nonnegativity and the Bruhat Order Gérard H.E. Duchamp, Jean-Gabriel Luque, Karol A. Penson and Christophe Tollu, Free Quasisymmetric Functions, Product Actions, and Quantum Field Theory of Partitions Enrica Duchi, On some classes of prudent walks Enrica Duchi and Gilles Schaeffer, A combinatorial approach to jumping particles: the parallel TASEP Abdelaaziz El Hibaoui, Nasser Saheb-Djahromi and Akka Zemmari, Polyominoids and Uniform Election Sen-Peng Eu, Tung-Shan Fu, Chun-Ju Lai, On the Enumeration of Parking Functions by Leading Numbers Ilse Fischer, The number of monotone triangles with prescribed bottom row Gunnar Fløystad, Enriched homology and cohomology modules of simplicial complexes Tom Halverson, Schensted Insertion for Set Partitions and the Partition Algebra Christopher R. H. Hanusa, A Gessel-Viennot-Type Method for Cycle Systems Gabor Hetyei, CW-spheres encoded by polyspherical coordinates Damien Jamet and Geneviève Paquin, Discrete surfaces and infinite smooth words Jakob Jonsson, Pseudo-independence Complexes over Matroids R. C. King, C. Tollu and F. Toumazet, The Hive Model and the Factorisation of Kostka Coefficients S.G. Klementyev and V.M. Petrogradsky, On growth of solvable Lie superalgebras and generating functions Masashi Kosuda, Party algebra of Type $B$ and Construction of its Irreducible Representations Le Borgne Yvan, Counting upper interactions in Dyck paths Cristian Lenart and Alexander Postnikov, A combinatorial model for crystals of Kac-Moody algebras Fu Liu and Brian Osserman, Mochizuki's indigenous bundles and Ehrhart polynomials Toufik Mansour, Sherry H.F. Yan, and Laura L.M. Yang, Counting occurrences of $231$ in an involution Sarah Mason, A Decomposition of the Schur Functions into Non-Symmetric Schur Functions Sho Matsumoto, Random strict partitions and pfaffian Hiroshi Mizukawa, Zonal polynomials for wreath products Els Moens and Joris Van der Jeugt, Composite supersymmetric S-functions and characters of $\gl(m|n)$ representations Masayuki Nanba, The Bruhat ordering on the Coxeter group of Type $\widetilde {C}_n$ Darren Neubauer, Raising and Lowering Maps and Modules for the Quantum Affine Algebra $U_q({\widehat{sl}_2})$ Koji Nuida, On the isomorphism problem, indecomposability and the automorphism group of Coxeter groups Maurice Pouzet and Nicolas M. Thiéry, Some relational structures with polynomial growth and their associated algebras Fanja Rakotondrajao, Magic squares, rook polynomials and permutations Brendon Rhoades, A Generalization of the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem Juan Alberto Rodriguez and José Maria Sigarreta, On the degree-adjacency matrix of a graph Brian Rothbach, Borel orbits of $X^2=0$ in $gl_n$ Kristin Shaw, Stephanie van Willigenburg, Multiplicity free expansions of Schur P functions Shelly Smith, The Discrete Fundamental Group of the Order Complex of $B_n$ Tamon Stephen, A majorization bound for the eigenvalues of some graph Laplacians I.Sviridova, On the Littlewood-Richardson rule applying Bridget Eileen Tenner, A Non-Messing-Up Phenomenon for Posets Nathaniel Thiem, Braids and tableaux for unipotent Hecke algebras Stephanie van Willigenburg, Equality of Schur and skew Schur functions Emilie Wiesner, The Combinatorics of Translation Functors for the Virasoro Algebra Alexander Woo and Alexander Yong, When is a Schubert variety Gorenstein? SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION Charles Cochet, Vector Partition Function and Representation Theory Proceedings At the start of the conference every participant will receive a CD ROM, containing extended abstracts of all the invited as well as contributed talks and posters. Open problem session Contributions to the problem session are invited in advance of the conference dates. People interested in submitting a problem in advance should submit it via http://www.unime.it/fpsac05/ before June 1, 2005. Participant support Limited funds are available for partial support of participants, in particular for students and junior scientists. Requests should contain a letter of recommendation and include the estimated transportation and living expenses for the duration of the conference as well as the amount of any support available from other sources. Requests should be sent by e-mail to fpsac05@unime.it . Location The conference will take place in Taormina, Sicily, at Hotel Atlantis Bay. The first talk is scheduled for June 20, 2005 at 9:00 a.m. Accommodation Contact person for accommodation is Stefania Modica at info@sunmeetings.com There are various categories of accommodation available on site in Taormina, very close to the main conference venue. Rooms can be booked at http://www.unime.it/fpsac05/ Social programme There will be an opening reception at the Atlantis Bay Hotel on Sunday evening. The conference banquet is being held on Wednesday , June 22 for € 75,00/person (drinks not included). There will be a half-day on Thursday, June 23 with activities available. Further information All important information concerning FPSAC'05 can be found on the conference web site at http://www.unime.it/fpsac05/. Please direct further questions to fpsac05@unime.it . Registration Registration fee before or on April 1, 2005:250 Euros (students, 125 Euros) Registration fee after April 1, 2005: 300 Euros (students, 150 Euros) Summary of important dates Requests for support: ongoing Reduced registration fees: April 1, 2005 Final submissions: May 1, 2005 Conference begins: June 20, 2005 Program Committee ----------------- Christos Athanasiadis (Greece) Hélène Barcelo (USA) Francois Bergeron (Canada) Sara Billey (USA) Francesco Brenti (Italy) Luisa Carini (Italy), chair Bill Chen (China) Alain Goupil (Canada) Takayuki Hibi (Japan) Anatol Kirillov (Japan,Russia) Christian Krattenthaler (France) Alain Lascoux (France) Svante Linusson (Sweden) Jennifer Morse (USA) Marc Noy (Spain) Jorn Olsson (Denmark) Arun Ram (USA) Domenico Senato (Italy) Volker Strehl (Germany) Jean-Yves Thibon (France), co-chair Helge Tverberg (Norway) Michelle Wachs (USA) Volkmar Welker (Germany) Mike Zabrocki (Canada) Organizing Committee -------------------- Helene Barcelo (USA) Luisa Carini (Italy), chair Vincenzo De Filippis (Italy) Maylis Delest (France) Jean Marc Fédou (France) Filippo Mignosi (Italy) Alain Goupil (Canada) Enzo Maria Li Marzi (Italy) Jennifer Morse (USA) Gaetana Restuccia (Italy) Jean-Yves Thibon (France)