Previous Conferences & Workshops

Sep
30
2014

Topology of Algebraic Varieties

Tropical currents
3:30pm|S-101

I will outline a construction of "tropical current", a positive closed current associated to a tropical variety. I will state basic properties of tropical currents, and discuss how tropical currents are related to a version of Hodge conjecture for...

Sep
30
2014

Topology of Algebraic Varieties

The Fano variety of lines and rationality problem for a cubic hypersurface
11:00am|Physics Library, Bloomberg Hall 201

The relevant preprints are: arXiv:1405.5154 "The Fano variety of lines and rationality problem for a cubic hypersurface", Sergey Galkin, Evgeny Shinder arXiv:1405.4902 "On two rationality conjectures for cubic fourfolds", Nicolas Addington

Sep
30
2014

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Uniform words are primitive (cont'd)
10:30am|S-101

Let \(G\) be a finite group, and let \(a\), \(b\), \(c\),... be independent random elements of \(G\), chosen at uniform distribution. What is the distribution of the element obtained by a fixed word in the letters \(a\), \(b\), \(c\),..., such as \...