BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6830b92251ddb DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210318T130000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/algebraic-co mbinatorics-seminar-david-wagner-4 SUMMARY:Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - David Wagner CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: The Poset Conjecture: results\, counterexam ples\, and open\nproblems\n\nSpeaker:\n David Wagner\n\nAffiliation:\n Uni versity of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ\n\nZoom:\n Contact Karen Yeats\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nIn 1978 \, Neggers conjectured that a certain transform of the order\npolynomial o f a partially ordered set (poset) has only real roots.\n\nIn the late 1980 s\, Stanley gave this to me as a thesis project\,\ngeneralized to labelled posets.  For my thesis I proved the\nconclusion for series-parallel labe lled posets and a bit more. \nBr\\\"and\\'en\, and later Stembridge\, fou nd counterexamples to the\nconjecture in general.\n DTSTAMP:20250523T180626Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR