Events for 10/04/2018 from all calendars

Seminar on Banach and Metric Space Geometry

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou, University of Alberta

Title: Regular covering for non-symmetric convex bodies

Abstract: We use a convex-geometric argument to give an extension of Pisier's theorem on the existence of regular M-ellipsoids to the setting of non-symmetric convex bodies (albeit with worse quantitative conclusions).

Student/Postdoc Working Geometry Seminar

Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Location: BLOC 628

Speaker: A. Harper

Title: Ressayre's paper on Kronecker Coefficients

Abstract: This will be an exposition of: http://math.univlyon1.fr/~ressayre/PDFs/hornkron.pdf