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Gaku Liu

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

gakuliu@uw.edu

(206) 543-7386

Gaku Liu's Website

PDL C-417

Fields of Interest

CombinatoricsDiscrete GeometryGeometric Combinatorics

Courses Taught

Winter 2024

• MATH 381 A: Discrete Mathematical Modeling
• MATH 381 B: Discrete Mathematical Modeling

Autumn 2023

• MATH 342 A: Art of Problem Solving
• MATH 561 A: Foundations of Combinatorics

Winter 2023

• MATH 582 C: Special Topics in Mathematics

Autumn 2022

• MATH 124 E: Calculus with Analytic Geometry I
• MATH 124 F: Calculus with Analytic Geometry I

Spring 2022

• MATH 462 A: Combinatorial Theory II

Winter 2022

• MATH 461 A: Combinatorial Theory I
• MATH 461 B: Combinatorial Theory I

Spring 2021

• MATH 307 H: Introduction to Differential Equations
• MATH 307 I: Introduction to Differential Equations

Winter 2021

• MATH 307 J: Introduction to Differential Equations
• MATH 307 K: Introduction to Differential Equations

Autumn 2020

• MATH 581 H: Special Topics in Mathematics

News & Events

Related News

• New Assistant Professors - January 25, 2021

Related Events

• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: TBA (Fiona Young, Cornell University) - May 29, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: TBA (Kevin Liu, University of Washington) - May 22, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: TBA (Hailun Zheng, University of Houston-Downtown) - May 15, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: TBA (Daoji Huang, University of Minnesota) - May 8, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: The inhomogeneous multispecies PushTASEP and Macdonald polynomials (Arvind Ayyer, Indian Institute of Science) - May 1, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: TBA (Julie Curtis, University of Washington) - April 24, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Shuffle bases and quasisymmetric power sums (Michael Tang, University of Washington) - April 17, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: The Poincare-Extended ab-Index (Galen Dorpalen-Barry, University of Oregon) - April 10, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Increasing subsequences, orbit harmonics, and shadow play (Brendon Rhoades, University of California, San Diego) - April 3, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: The first bijective proof of the ASM theorem (Matjaž Konvalinka, University of Ljubljana) - March 6, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Incidences and Tilings (Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan) - February 28, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Solving puzzles of shellable simplicial spheres (Yirong Yang, University of Washington) - February 21, 2024 - 4:10pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Moshe's Insanity (Moshe Rosenfeld, University of Washington, Tacoma) - February 14, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• CANCELED: Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: The Poincare-Extended ab-Index (Galen Dorpalen-Barry, University of Oregon) - February 7, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Tropicalization of the principal minors of positive semidefinite matrices (Cynthia Vinzant, University of Washington) - January 31, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Farahat-Higman Algebras for Classical Linear Groups (Arun Kannan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - January 24, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Distributional properties of colored multiset Eulerian polynomials (Danai Deligeorgaki, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - January 17, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: A regular unimodular triangulation of the matroid base polytope (Gaku Liu, University of Washington) - January 10, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Numerical semigroups, minimal presentations, and posets (Christopher O'Neill, San Diego State University) - December 6, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: A noncommutative Schur function approach to chromatic symmetric functions (Isaiah Siegl, University of Washington) - November 29, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Extremal crystals and atom-positivity (Samuel Armon, University of Southern California) - November 8, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Matroid Schubert varieties and equivariant compactifications (Colin Crowley, University of Oregon) - November 1, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Quantum Bruhat graphs and tilted Richardson varieties (Shiliang Gao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - October 25, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Snake Graphs for Graph LP Algebras (Sunita Chepuri, University of Puget Sound) - October 18, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Projections of Richardson Varieties (Travis Grigsby, Oklahoma State University) - October 11, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Face Numbers and Angles of Polytopes (Josh Hinman, University of Washington) - October 4, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Combinatorics of two-boundary Temperley-Lieb algebras (Zajj Daugherty, Reed College) - May 31, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Combinatorics of CAT(0) cubical complexes, crossing complexes and co-skeletons (Rowan Rowlands, University of Washington) - May 24, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Central transversals and hyperplane arrangements (Pablo Soberón, City University of New York, Baruch College) - May 17, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Tautological classes of matroids (Christopher Eur, Harvard University) - May 10, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Mixed Volumes of Normal Complexes (Lauren Nowak, University of Washington) - May 3, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Chip-firing game on metric graphs and combinatorics of their Jacobians (Farbod Shokrieh, University of Washington) - April 26, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: SL_4 web bases from hourglass plabic graphs (Joshua Swanson, University of Southern California) - April 19, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: The Polyhedral Combinatorics of Pivot Rules (Alex Black, University of California Davis) - April 12, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Higher Weak Order of Affine Permutations (Herman Chau, University of Washington) - March 8, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Algebra, Geometry & Combinatorics of the Pinhole Camera (Rekha Thomas, University of Washington) - March 1, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: The geometric method, matroids and related simplicial complexes (Andrew Berget, Western Washington University) - February 22, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Vertex labeling properties on graphs and complexes (Bruno Benedetti, University of Miami) - February 15, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Combinatorial mutations and birational maps (Ricky Liu, University of Washington) - February 1, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Unimodular triangulations of sufficiently large dilations (Gaku Liu, University of Washington) - January 25, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Transfer systems and model structures for combinatorialists (Kyle Ormsby, University of Washington) - January 18, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Problems around Combinatorial Graphs and Distance Geometry (Stefan Steinerberger, University of Washington) - January 11, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Subdivisions of Shellable Complexes (Max Hlavacek, University of California Berkeley) - December 7, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Odd diagrams and patterns (Bridget Tenner, DePaul University) - November 30, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: 3D plabic graphs and cluster structures on type A braid varieties (Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - November 16, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: 2-LC triangulated manifolds are exponentially many (Marta Pavelka, University of Miami) - November 9, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: On the anisotropy theorem of Papadakis and Petrotou (Elizabeth Xiao, University of British Columbia) - November 2, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Enumerating interval graphs and d-representable complexes (Amzi Jeffs, Carnegie Mellon University) - October 26, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Hurwitz numbers via topological recursion (Reinier Kramer, University of Alberta) - October 19, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: A Pattern Avoidance Criteria for Smoothness of Positroid Varieties Via Decorated Permutations, Spirographs, and Johnson Graphs  (Jordan Weaver, University of Washington) - October 12, 2022 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Maximal Chain Descent Orders (Stephen Lacina, University of Oregon) - October 5, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Flavors of the Fubini-Bruhat Order (Stark Ryan, University of Washington) - June 1, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Higher Categorical Associahedra (Spencer Backman, University of Vermont) - May 25, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Pattern-avoiding parking functions (Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University) - May 18, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Graph limits and graph homomorphism inequalities (Fan Wei, Princeton University) - May 11, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: A Proof of Grünbaum’s Lower Bound Conjecture for polytopes, lattices, and strongly regular pseudomanifolds (Lei Xue, University of Washington) - May 4, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: q-Whittaker functions, finite fields, and Jordan forms (Steven Karp, LaCIM, Université du Québec à Montréal) - April 27, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Grothendieck-to-Lascoux Expansions (Tianyi Yu, University of California San Diego) - April 13, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Linear relations among Schubert structure coefficients (Anna Weigandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - April 6, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Planar Tanglegram Layouts and Edge Insertion (Kevin Liu, University of Washington) - February 16, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Common tangents to polytopes and convex bodies (José Alejandro Samper, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) - February 9, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Non-realizability of polytopes via linear programming (Amy Wiebe, Simon Fraser University) - February 2, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Braiding and twisting open positroid varieties (Christopher Fraser, Michigan State University) - January 19, 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: From symmetric functions, to knots, and back again (Nicolle González, University of California Los Angeles) - December 8, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• CANCELED: Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Braiding and twisting open positroid varieties (Christopher Fraser, Michigan State University) - December 1, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Multiplicities of maximal dominant weights of some affine Lie algebra modules (Kailash Misra, North Carolina State University) - November 29, 2021 - 4:10pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: When is the probability of avoiding a graph super-exponentially small? (Rajko Nenadov, Google Zürich) - November 17, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Helly type problems: topology, the cascade conjecture, and graph coloring (Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reichman University, and NYU) - November 10, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Combinatorial atlas for log-concave inequalities (Swee Hong Chan, University of California Los Angeles) - November 3, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Bumpless pipe dreams encode Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials (Patricia Klein, University of Minnesota) - October 27, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: f*- and h*-vectors (Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University) - October 20, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: P-partition generating functions of naturally labeled posets (Ricky Liu, University of Washington) - October 13, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Career Transitions: Post-Prelim Chat (Panel Speakers: Silvia Ghinassi, Gaku Liu, and Farbod Shokrieh, Hosted by: Sara Billey) - December 3, 2020 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm

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