Schedule

Course Page: http://www.math.msu.edu/~magyar/math880 .

The dates below are tentative. Changes will be announced in class and on our course page.

L	Date	Topic
1	8/29	Method of Generating Functions: binomial coefficients
2	8/31	Method of Generating Functions: Fibonacci numbers
	9/3	Labor Day, no class
3	9/5	Twelvefold Way: balls & bins, deletion transforms, Pascal triangle, ((n | k)) = (n+k−1 | k) Last day to change sections online
4	9/7	Twelvefold Way: Stirling partition numbers, Principle of Inclusion-Exclusion
5	9/10	Catalan numbers, Involution Principle
6	9/12	Number partitions, Euler's formula
7	9/14	Partitions: Franklin's involution
8	9/17	Lableled graded classes & product
9	9/19	Exponential formula, Bell, Stirling partition & cycle, derangement generating functions, composition of functions
10	9/21	Labeled trees, Lagrange inversion
11	9/24	Unlabeled trees, dlog recurrence method Last day to drop course with tuition refund
12	9/26	Permutations: descents, Viennot transform, Euler numbers, directed product
13	9/28
14	10/1	Permutations: inversions, Rothe diagram, Grassmannian
15	10/3	Finite fields, Grassmannian, Bruhat order, degenerations
16	10/5	Flag variety, Bruhat order
17	10/8
18	10/10
19	10/12
20	10/15
21	10/17	Last day to drop course with no grade reported
22	10/19
23	10/22
24	10/24
25	10/26
26	10/29
27	10/31
28	11/2
29	11/5
30	11/7
31	11/9
32	11/12
33	11/14
34	11/16
35	11/19
36	11/21
	11/23	Thanksgiving Break, no class
37	11/26
38	11/28
39	11/30
40	12/3
41	12/5
42	12/7