Note:The course will be delivered on Tuesdays, 19:20-21:45, from May31,2022.Prerequisites: Calculus, Linear Algebra, and some basic algebra (groups, rings and fields). Covered Materials: We will give a broad introduction to combinatorics. The tentative schedule is as following: (1). Enumeration (counting, generating functions, inclusion-exclusion and so on) (2). Applications of basic methods (...
AbstractMany important posets (partially ordered sets) in combinatorics have algebriac interpretations. We will go over three families of examples: toric varieties, Schubert varieties and matroid Schubert varieties. We will discuss how to translate some of the combinatorical invariants into the geometric ones, and the application of intersection cohomology groups in solving combinatorical probl...