Here is a pattern to print twice on cardboard, for building the model tetrahedron that I used in class:
Here is a more detailed PDF drawing of the associahedron:
Here are four papers related to what we’re studying. I’m also making these available on Courseworks.
As a student I became interested in the problem of finding an algorithm to produce Young tableaux uniformly at random. I showed Herb Wilf a construction that lead to the construction in their paper. I had bungled how to use hook lengths. This taught me to always push harder.
As a reminder, I have posted links on our main page to all class notes and exam solutions from Spring 2021 and Spring 2022, combined into single files: