Video Lectures

For a permutation p, let Sn(p) be the number of permutations on n letters avoiding p. Stanley and Wilf conjectured that, for each permutation p, Sn(p)1/n tends to a finite limit L(p). Marcus and Tardos proved the Stanley-Wilf conjecture by a...

Orderability of contact manifolds is related in some non-obvious ways to the topology of a contact manifold Σ. We know, for instance, that if Σ admits a 2-subcritical Stein filling, it must be non-orderable. By way of contrast, in this talk I will...