January 14	Brendan Pawlowski, University of Minnesota (webpage: http://math.umn.edu/~bpawlows/ ) Title: Cohomology classes of rank varieties and a counterexample to a conjecture of Liu.
	January 21	Monty McGovern, University of Washington Title: Standard domino tableaux and Kazhdan-Lusztig cells: a mathematical mystery.
	January 28	Sasho Nikolov, Microsoft Research (webpage: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/alenik/ ) Title: Factorization Norms and Tusnady's Problem.
	February 18	Ioana Dumitriu, University of Washington (webpage: http://www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/ ) Title: Recovery in a Regular Stochastic Block Model.
	February 25	Ivan Izmestiev, Freie Universität Berlin (webpage: http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/izmestiev/ ) Title: Geometric Pachner moves, rigidity of non-convex polyhedra, and polytopality of simplicial spheres.
	March 4	Sara Billey, University of Washington (webpage: http://www.math.washington.edu/~billey ) Title: A bijective proof of Macdonald's reduced word formula.
	March 6	Colloquium: Lauren Williams, University of California, Berkeley Title: The Positive Grassmanian. Note: This is part of the UW-PIMS colloquia series. It is in MEB 246 at 2:30pm.
	March 11	Josh Swanson, University of Washington (webpage: http://www.math.washington.edu/~jps314/ ) Title: Schubert multiplication rules and Bruhat chains".