Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
22
2005

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

The Comparison Between Kac-Moody and Arithmetic Groups
Bertrand Remy
2:00pm|S-101

The talk will be introductory. We will first explain what Kac-Moody groups are. These groups are defined by generators and relations, but they are better understood via their actions on buildings. The involved class of buildings is interesting since...

Nov
22
2005

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Euclidean Embeddings of Finite Metric Spaces: Distortion and Expansion
10:30am|S-101

Bi-lipschitz embeddings of finite metric spaces into Hilbert space have become an increasingly important tool in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. For example, this theory is intimately related to the algorithmic problem of...