How To Avoid a Pattern

May 01, 2017, 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM

Location:

Mathematics Graduate Student Lounge -- 7th Floor

Rutgers University

Hill Center

Mathematics Department

110 Frelinghuysen Road

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Yonah Biers-Ariel, Rutgers University

This talk will define permutation pattern avoidance classes and give some (in my opinion) surprising results regarding which patterns are easiest to avoid. Time permitting, we will then discuss pattern containment and superpatterns.