Events for 05/05/2017 from all calendars

Free Probability Seminar

Time: 11:30AM - 12:30PM

Location: BLOC 628

Speaker: Mike Brannan, Texas A&M University

Title: Moment formulas on orthogonal groups

Abstract: We continue with some discussion of Dahlqvist's paper on moment formulas for the Brownian motion on orthogonal groups. The plan is to just do some low order moment calculations for standard coordinates on O_n with respect to the heat kernel measure and state a conjectural formula for the large n limit behavior.

Geometry Seminar

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: BLOC 628

Speaker: Jens Forsgaard, TAMU

Title: Singularities of Discriminants

Abstract: We will discuss singularities of A-discriminants in terms of the Horn--Kapranov uniformization. Applications to the study of dual defect toric varieties will be given. This is joint work with J. Maurice Rojas.