• Diagram Centralizer Algebras, University of Wyoming Mathematics Colloquium, March 12, 2009.
• A q-Partition Algebra, University of California Lie Theory Workshop: A conference in honor of Professor Georgia Benkart, Feb 16-18, 2008 (conference webpage).
• RSK Insertion for Diagram Algebras and Multiplicity-Free Models, Special Session in Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA, San Antonio, TX, January 13, 2006.

Preprints

• q-partition combinatorics, updated 8/26/09, with N. Thiem, preprint 2008, to appear in Journal of Combinatorial Theory A.

Publications

• Commuting families in Hecke and Temperley-Lieb algebras, with M. Mazzocco and A. Ram, Nagoya Mathematical Journal 195 (2009) 1-28.
• The Planar Rook Algebra and Pascal's Triangle, with D. Flath and K. Herbig*, L'Enseignement Mathématique, (2) 55 (2009), 77-92.
• RSK Insertion for Set Partitions and Diagram Algebras, with T. Lewandowski*, Electronic J. Combinatorics, 11(2) R24.
• Partition Algebras, with A. Ram,  European J. Combin.  26  (2005),  no. 6, 869--921.
• Representations of the q-rook monoid,  J. Algebra  273  (2004),  no. 1, 227--251.
• Character orthogonality for the partition algebra and fixed points of permutations, with J. Farina*, Adv. in Appl. Math.,  31  (2003),  no. 1, 113--131.  
• Characters of the q-rook monoid, with M. Dieng* and V. Poladian*, J. Algebraic Combin., 17  (2003),  no. 2, 99--123. 
• Robinson-Schensted-Knuth insertion and cyclotomic Hecke algebras, with A. Cantrell* and B. Miller*, J. Combinatorial, Theory A,  99 17-31 (2002).
• q-rook monoid algebras, Hecke algebras, and Schur-Weyl duality, with A. Ram, In memory of Sergei Kerov 1946-2000, Zap. Nauchn. Sem. S.-Peterburg Otdel. Mat. Inst. Stelkov (POMI), 283 (2001), Teor. Predst. Din. Sist. Komb. i Algoritm. Metody 6, 224--250, 262--263.
• Characters of the partition algebras, J. Algebra , 238 , (2001), 502-533.
• Bitraces for GL_n(F_q) and the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of type A, with A. Ram, Indag. Mathem., N.S., 10 (1998), 247-268. An additional table of values of the bitrace for n=6 is available: Table1 || extended abstract in dvi
• Murnaghan-Nakayama rules for characters of Iwahori-Hecke algebras of the complex reflection groups G(r,p,n), with A. Ram, Canadian J. Math., 50,  1997, 167-192.   
• Iwahori-Hecke algebras of type A, bitraces and symmetric functions, with R. Leduc and  A. Ram, Internat. Math. Res. Notices , 1997, 401--416.   
• Characters of the centralizer algebras of mixed tensor representations of GL(r,C) and the quantum group Uq(gl(r,C)),  Pacific J. Math.,   174   (1996), 359--410.  
• Murnaghan-Nakayama rules for characters of Iwahori-Hecke algebras of  classical type, with A. Ram, 348 (1996), 3967--3995.       
• Characters of algebras containing a Jones basic construction: the Temperley-Lieb,  Okada, Brauer, and Birman-Wenzl algebras, with A. Ram, Adv. Math., 116   (1995), 263--321.
• A q-rational Murnaghan-Nakayama rule, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 71 (1995), 1--18.  
• Tensor product representations of general linear groups and their connections with Brauer algebras, with G. Benkart, M. Chakrabarti, R. Leduc; C. Lee, J. Stroomer, J. Algebra , 166 (1994), 529--567.