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<title>Schubert Calculus on Grassmannians</title>

<speaker>
Leonardo Mihalcea, FSU
</speaker>

<abstract>
<p>
Schubert Calculus answers basic enumerative questions such as how many
lines in the projective space meet four given lines in generic
position. Various techniques, from Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic
Combinatorics or, sometimes, Representation Theoery, can be used to anser
these questions.
</p>

<p>
In this talk I will study the cohomology of the Grassmannian, from the
combinatorial and geometric point of view. My goal is to give a geometric
interpretation for Knutson and Tao's "puzzles" (combinatorial
objects describing a Littlewood-Richardson (LR) rule for the
Grassmannian) via Vakil's recent "geometric LR rule" using degenerations. 
</p>
</abstract>

</talk>
