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Revision as of 20:23, 18 September 2020
UW Madison mathematics Colloquium is ONLINE on Fridays at 4:00 pm.
Fall 2020
September 25, 2020, Joseph Landsberg (Texas A&M)
(Hosted by Gurevitch)
From theoretic computer science to algebraic geometry: how the complexity of matrix multiplication led me to the Hilbert scheme of points.
In 1968 Strassen discovered the way we multiply nxn matrices (row/column) is not the most efficient algorithm possible. Subsequent work has led to the astounding conjecture that as the size n of the matrices grows, it becomes almost as easy to multiply matrices as it is to add them. I will give a history of this problem and explain why it is natural to study it using algebraic geometry and representation theory. I will conclude by discussing recent exciting developments that explain the second phrase in the title.
October 9, 2020, Carolina Araujo (IMPA)
(Hosted by Ellenberg)
October 23, 2020, Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto)
(Hosted by Gorin)
November 6, 2020, Yiannis Sakellaridis (Johns Hopkins University)
(Hosted by Gurevitch)