My research interests are on the combinatorial aspects of the algebra and geometry. I am interested in  the algebraic
monoids (and algebraic groups), the theory of the Macdonald polynomials (hence the Hilbert schemes), and the combinatorics
related to the moduli spaces.


 Articles:
® A Proof of the $q,t$-Square Conjecture (with N. Loehr),  Journal of Comb. Theory, Series A, 113 (2006), no. 7, 1419--1434}.

 We prove a combinatorial formula conjectured by Loehr and Warrington for the coefficient of the sign character in $\nabla(p_n)$ .
Here $\nabla$ denoted the Bergeron-Garsia nable operator, and $p_n$ is a power-sum symmetric function. The combinatorial
formula enumerates lattice paths in an $n\times n$ square according to two suitable statistics.


® Combinatorics of the Shatz polygons (with A. Dhillon), submitted.

 For every lattice point in the right half plane there is an associated poset of Harder-Narasimhan polygons. In this article, we study the
combinatorial properties of these posets. We show that on each vertical direction there are only finitely many non-isomorphic posets of Harder-Narasimhan polygons. Furthermore, we determine the exact number of isomorphism classes of the augmented posets of Harder-Narasimhan polygons on each vertical direction.


® Nested Hilbert schemes and the nested $q,t$-Catalan series. http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0763

 In this paper we study the tangent spaces of the smooth nested Hilbert scheme $ Hil{n,n-1}$ of points in the plane, and give a general
formula for computing the Euler characteristic of a $\TT^2$-equivariant locally free sheaf on $\Hil{n,n-1}$. Applying our result to a
particular sheaf, we conjecture that the result is a polynomial in the variables $q$ and $t$ with non-negative integer coefficients . We call
this conjecturally positive polynomial as \textsl{the nested $q,t$-Cat alan series}, for it has many conjectural properties similar to that of
the $q,t $-Catalan series.


® Asymptotic computation of the probability for two subspaces over a finite field to have the same dimension (with M. Bona, R. Pemantle and H.Wilf).

In this paper, we calculate the statement that is in the title, and we express the result in terms of the ''theta function.''


® H-polynomials and rook polynomials (with L. Renner), submitted.


® The Bruhat-Chevalley ordering on the rook monoid (with L. Renner), submitted.


® The rook monoid is lexicographically shellable, to be submitted -available upon request.


® Some plethystic identities and Kostka-Foulkes polynomials, to be submitted -available upon request.


® Equivariant $K$-theory for the rook monoids (with L. Renner), in preparation.



Here is the Hasse diagram of the rook monoid for n=3.
(Thanks to John Stembridge's SF package.)