Professor
Graduate Program Director
Fields of Interest
Biography
PhD, Hebrew University, 1999
Courses Taught
Autumn 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2020
Winter 2020
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Autumn 2017
Spring 2017
Winter 2017
Autumn 2016
Spring 2016
Winter 2016
News & Events
Related News
- Amzi Jeffs named NSF Graduate Fellow - April 19, 2018
- New AMS Fellows - November 1, 2016
Related Events
- 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
- Current Topics Seminar: The fascinating world of polytopes (Isabella Novik) - October 19, 2023 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
- 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
- Current Topics Seminar: Session 1 (Introductions / Isabella Novik) - October 8, 2020 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
- Current Topics Seminar: Polytopes versus centrally symmetric polytopes (Isabella Novik) - May 18, 2017 - 4:00pm