Title: The Universal Valuation of Coxeter Matroids 

Abstract: Valuations on a family of polytopes are functions which behave nicely with respect to subdivisions in this family. One important question is the determine the structure of the set of all valuations on a certain family. This can be done by constructing a "universal valuation" which is a valuation that can be specialized to any other valuation on this family. Coxeter matroids are a generalization of matroids to an arbitrary root system. As with usual matroids, we can interpret Coxeter matroids as polytopes. In this talk, we will construct a universal valuation for the family of Coxeter matroid polytopes.