Events for 02/19/2018 from all calendars
Geometry Seminar
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: Francis Bonahon, USC
Title: The relation (X+Y)^n = X^n + Y^n, and miraculous cancellations in quantum SL_2
Abstract: The convenient formula (X+Y)^n = X^n + Y^n is (unfortunately) frequently used by our calculus students. Our more advanced students know that this relation does hold in some special cases, for instance in prime characteristic n or when YX=qXY with q a primitive n-root of unity. I will discuss similar ``miraculous cancellations`` for 2-by-2 matrices, in the context of the quantum group U_q(sl_2).
Working Seminar in Groups, Dynamics, and Operator Algebras
Time: 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Location: BLOC 506A
Speaker: Jintao Deng, Texas A&M University
Title: Groupoid
Student/Postdoc Working Geometry Seminar
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: JM Landsberg, TAMU
Title: Strassen's asymptotic spectrum I: background