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Joint Meeting of AMS, DMV, and ÖMG
June 16-19, 2005
Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz, Germany

Organizers
Volker Bach, Mainz; Klaus D. Bierstedt, DMV; Susan Friedlander, Associate Secretary, AMS

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The Genesis of the Macdonald Polynomial Statistics
by
Jim Haglund
University of Pennsylvania

We discuss the empirical method that led the speaker to the discovery of a formula for the Macdonald polynomial involving generalizations of the permutation statistics inv and maj. (This conjectured formula has since been proven by Haiman, Loehr and the speaker - see the talk by M. Haiman).

Date received: March 29, 2005

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