Notes from Alan Sokal's talks

The title of the series is: Roots of a formal power series, with applications to graph enumeration and q-series. The talks are scheduled for 11, 18 and 25 March and 8 April. An abstract and further reading for the series can be found here.

• Talk 1, 11 March 2011: Some wonderful conjectures (but almost no theorems) at the boundary between analysis, combinatorics and probability
• Talk 2, 18 March 2011: Applications of the explicit implicit function formula and the exponential formula
• Talk 3, 25 March 2011: The leading root of the partial theta-function
• Talk 4, 8 April 2011: Higher roots and Hadamard-product formulae

Peter J. Cameron
29 March 2011