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Mathematics

Student/Postdoc Working Geometry Seminar

Fall 2019

 

Date:August 21, 2019
Time:4:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:C.J. Bott
Title:Mukai C5 part 4

Date:August 23, 2019
Time:4:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:J.M. Landsberg, TAMU
Title:border apolarity and rectangular matrix multiplication

Date:August 29, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:A. Pal, TAMU
Title:Mukai 5.2(d)

Date:August 30, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:J.M. Landsberg
Title:Hay in a haystack for tensors
Abstract:I will describe recent work with M. Michalek towards finding explicit tensors of high border rank.

Date:September 5, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:C.J. Bott, TAMU
Title:Mukai Chap 6, I

Date:September 6, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:E. Ventura, TAMU
Title:Strict inclusions of high rank loci

Date:September 12, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:A. Pal, TAMU
Title:Mukai Chap 6, II

Date:September 13, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:C.J. Bott, TAMU
Title:The cactus variety of the Veronese after the Buczynski family
Abstract:discussion of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.3563.pdf

Date:September 19, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:A Harper, TAMU
Title:Mukai, Chap 6, III

Date:September 20, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:A. Huang, TAMU
Title:Ein and Lazarsfeld on work of Aprodu, Farkas, Papadima, Raicu and Weyman
Abstract:This will be an exposition of arXiv:1906.05429

Date:September 26, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:A. Harper, TAMU
Title:Mukai 6.2 cont'd

Date:October 1, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 220 - note 
Speaker:A. Harper, TAMU
Title:Apolarity, border rank and multigraded Hilbert Scheme, after B-B

Date:October 3, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:A. Harper/A. Huang, TAMU
Title:Mukai 6->7

Date:October 10, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:A. Huang, TAMU
Title:Mukai ch 7 cont'd

Date:October 11, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:A. Harper, TAMU
Title:BB apolarity con'td

Date:October 17, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:JM Landsberg/Amy Huang, TAMU
Title:Mukai C7 cont'd

Date:October 18, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:CJ Bott, TAMU
Title:The BB cactus paper part II

Date:October 24, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:CJ Bott, TAMU
Title:Mukai 10/24

Date:October 25, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:JM Landsberg, TAMU
Title:2nn and 3nn matrix multiplication

Date:October 31, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:A. Pal, TAMU
Title:Mukai 10/31

Date:November 7, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 220 - note 
Speaker:A. Huang
Title:Mukai 11/7

Date:November 14, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:CJ Bott, TAMU
Title:Mukai 11-14

Date:November 21, 2019
Time:3:00pm
Location:BLOC 628
Speaker:JM Landsberg, TAMU
Title:Hay in a haystack: explicit tensors of high border rank
Abstract:I'll present a sequence of mxmxm tensors of border rank at least 2.02m, solving an old problem. This is joint work with Mateusz Michalek.

Date:November 22, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:A. Pal, TAMU
Title:Mukai 11/22

Date:December 2, 2019
Time:2:00pm
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:A. Harper, TAMU
Title:Mukai 12/2

Date:December 5, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:R. Geng, TAMU
Title:Representation theory in quantum information theory, after Christandl et. al.