A:C&T

Time and place: Thursday morning, U Fribourg.

Format: Lecture with some exercises. For those who need credit points, an oral examination. The exact time slot and format (including language) will be discussed during the first meeting.

Contact: SNSF-Prof. Emanuele Delucchi, emanuele.delucchi "at" unifr.ch

Lecture notes: [click here] for an updated version of the lecture notes. Corrections are welcome!

Lecture 1.

Graphs and colorings.
Suggested exercises: I.1 - I.5 in the Lecture Notes.

Lecture 2.

Flows on graphs and the Dichromate.

Lecture 3.

The Tutte polynomial: matroids, duality, universality.

Lecture 4. - March 19

Geometric lattices
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Lecture 5.

Dissection theory
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Lecture 6.

Signed graphs
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Lecture 7.

Signed graphs, root systems.
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Lecture 8.

Polyhedra and polytopes
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Lecture 9.

Faces of polyhedra, unimodularity.
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Lecture 10.

Subdivisions of polyhedra.
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Lecture 11.

Rational generating functions and simplicial cones
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Lecture 12.

Ehrhart theory
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Lecture 13.

Exercises / summary
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