UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle

11/23/2014 -- High School II: Guest speaker: Alejandro Morales

We will explore the combinatorics of placing non-attacking rooks in a chess board. In how many ways can we place n non-attacking rooks on a n x n board? how about if we do not allow rooks to be on the diagonal of the board? We will explore these and other questions and techniques for doing these counts.