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Apr
17
2025

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What is Tensor Isomorphism?
1:00pm|Simonyi Classroom (S-114)

Two graphs are isomorphic if they are the same up relabelling the vertices. Two matrices are equivalent if they are the same up to elementary row and column operations. Tensor isomorphism generalises these basic notions in graph theory and linear...

Apr
24
2025

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What is... the Chirotropical Grassmannian?
Dario Antolini
1:00pm|Simonyi Classroom (S-114)

The tropical Grassmannian Trop G(2,n) and its positive part are combinatorial objects revealing fascinating connections between tropical geometry and particle physics. In particular, they play a relevant role in the CHY integral formulation of...

May
01
2025

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What is a Building?
Petra Schwer
1:00pm|Simonyi Classroom (S-114)
May
15
2025

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What is a p-adic zeta function?
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In the 1850s, Kummer discovered some striking congruences mod powers of a prime number p between values of the Riemann zeta function at negative odd integers.  This was part of his attempt to understand structural aspects of certain algebraic...

Oct
23
2025

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What is Property $\tau$
Alex Lubotzky
11:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Property (T) was defined by Kazhdan in the 1960s, who used it to prove two conjectures of Selberg on lattices in high-rank Lie groups. Shortly after that, Margulis used it to construct expander graphs.

Property $\tau$ is a baby version of property (T...

Nov
05
2025

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What are... Entropy Methods in Combinatorics?
12:45pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The Shannon entropy of a discrete random variable quantifies the number of bits of information conveyed by sampling that variable. Although originally introduced in the context of information theory, techniques relying on Shannon entropy have been...

Nov
19
2025

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What is... a Non Local Game?
12:45pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In the 1930s, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen devised the "EPR paradox", which shed light on a peculiar phenomenon in the mathematical modeling of quantum mechanics:  Very far apart particles can exhibit correlated behaviour, which seemed to suggest a...

Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory

Feb
07
2013

Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory

An Introduction to motives
2:00pm|Fine Hall 322

We review the construction of the triangulated categories of motives over a base scheme (following the method of Morel and Voevodsky). We then explain quickly the construction of various operations between these categories as well as some...