Workshop Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rational Catalan combinatorics ---------------------------------------------------------------- December 17 to December 21, 2012 American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center Palo Alto, California http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/rationalcatalan.html ------------ Description: ------------ This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to understanding the interaction between new developments in algebra and combinatorics. In particular, it will focus on combinatorial objects counted by generalizations of Catalan numbers and their interaction with the representation theory of Cherednik algebras. The workshop is organized by Drew Armstrong, Stephen Griffeth, Victor Reiner, and Monica Vazirani. For more details please see the workshop announcement page: http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/rationalcatalan.html Space and funding is available for a few more participants. If you would like to participate, please apply by filling out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later than August 17, 2012. Applications are open to all, and we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities, junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily undergraduate institutions to apply. -------------------------------- AIM Research Conference Center: -------------------------------- The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) hosts focused workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. AIM focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an important new result, or investigating the convergence between two distinct areas of mathematics. For more information, please visit http://www.aimath.org/research/