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Mathematics

Events for 02/19/2018 from all calendars

Geometry Seminar

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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

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Time: 3:00PM - 3:50PM

Location: BLOC 506A

Speaker: Jintao Deng, Texas A&M University

Title: Groupoid


Student/Postdoc Working Geometry Seminar

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Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Location: BLOC 628

Speaker: JM Landsberg, TAMU

Title: Strassen's asymptotic spectrum I: background