October 4	Lauren Williams , Harvard University (email: lauren@math.harvard.edu) Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process.
	October 11	Branko Grunbaum, University of Washington (email: grunbaum@math.washington.edu) Recent developments in configurations.
	October 18	Brant Jones , University of Washington (email: brant@math.washington.edu) Embedded factor patterns and Deodhar's algorithm for Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.
	October 25	Joseph Zaks , University of Haifa (email: jzaks@math.haifa.ac.il) Which sets of E^n can be RATIONALLY embedded in E^m, some m?.
	November 1	Josephine Yu , University of California, Berkeley (email: josephine.yu@gmail.com) The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation.
	November 8	Brendon Rhoades , University of Minnesota (email: rhoad030@math.umn.edu) Triangularity and Immanants.
	November 15	Jay Schweig , Cornell University (email: schweig@math.cornell.edu) Several Convex-Ear Decompositions.
	November 29	Ioana Dumitriu , University of Washington (email: dumitriu@math.washington.edu) The Moment Method for Random Matrices, or Yet another way to have fun with enumerative combinatorics .