Combinatorics Fall 2010
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Combinatorics – Fall 2010

Thursday, October 21

Tuesday, October 26

  • Derangements
  • Generating Functions (pdf of Notes pages 11–20)
  • Ways to score k points in basketball

Thursday, October 28

  • Homework Discussion

Tuesday, November 2

  • Finish Discussion
  • Important generating function manipulations

Thursday, November 4

Tuesday, November 9

  • Application: Solving recurrence relations (pdf of Notes pages 21–26)
  • Application: A closed form for Fibonacci numbers
  • Application: A generating function for partitions

Thursday, November 11

Tuesday, November 16

  • Counting pattern avoidance
  • Catalan numbers

Thursday, November 18

Tuesday, November 23

  • Homework Discussion

Thursday, November 25

  • Thanksgiving, no class

Tuesday, November 30

Thursday, December 2

  • Question and Answer Session

Tuesday, December 7

  • Exam 2

Thursday, December 9

  • Poster Work Day

Tuesday, December 14, 6:15-8:15 pm

  • Poster Session
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