Events for 01/24/2020 from all calendars
Probability Seminar
Time: 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: Pengfei Tang, Indiana Bloomington
Title: Weights of wired uniform spanning forests on nonunimodular transitive graphs
Abstract: Uniform spanning forests are interesting probability models that related to a lot of other areas of probability, including electrical networks, loop-erased random walk, the Abelian sandpile models. In this talk, we will focus on the geometry of wired uniform spanning forest on nonunimodular transitive graphs. In particular, we will show that almost surely every tree of the wired uniform spanning forests is light. More generally, tilted volumes for the trees in WUSF will be discussed.
Working Seminar on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Time: 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Location: BLOC 624
Speaker: Li Gao, TAMU
Title: A review of linear algebra for quantum computation
Abstract: We will do a quick review of the basics from linear algebra that are required for this semester's undergraduate research program.
Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar
Time: 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: Yuri Bahturin, Memorial University Newfoundland
Title: Group gradings and actions of pointed Hopf algebras
Abstract: Finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras with abelian groups of group-likes are generated by their group-like and skew primitive elements. This makes it possible to apply a well developed theory of group gradings on simple finite-dimensional associative algebras to the study of actions of a wide class of pointed Hopf algebras on these algebras. (joint work with Susan Montgomery)
Linear Analysis Seminar
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: BLOC 220
Speaker: Gilles Pisier, Texas A&M University
Title: Non-nuclear C*-algebras with WEP and LLP and the Connes-Kirchberg problem, part 2