January 17	Anton Dochtermann , University of Washington (email: antondoc@math.washington.edu) Hom complexes and the topology of graph maps.
	January 24	Richard Green , University of Colorado, Boulder (email: rmg@euclid.colorado.edu) Traces, diagram algebras and Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials.
	January 31	Soojin Cho , Ajou University, Korea (email: chosj@ajou.ac.kr) Littlewood-Richardson coefficients: Reduction formulae and a conjecture by King, Tollu and Toumazet.
	February 7	Chris Hoffman , University of Washington (email: hoffman@math.washington.edu) Gibbs states, graph homomorphisms and phase transitions.
	February 14	Mike Zabrocki , York University (email: zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca) Non-commutative coinvariants.
	February 21	Russell Lyons, Indiana University (email: rdlyons@indiana.edu) Asymptotic Enumeration of Spanning Trees via Traces and Random Walks.
	February 28	Peter Littig , University of Washington, Bothell (email: PLittig@uwb.edu) Schubert Varieties and the Homology Ring of the Loop Space of a Compact Lie Group.
	March 7	William McGovern , University of Washington (email: mcgovern@math.washington.edu) An unsolved problem in Kazhdan-Lusztig theory.