All Seminars & Colloquia

Combinatorics Seminar-K-Nearest Neighbor Approximation Via the Friend-of-a-Friend Principle

Thursday, 10/24/2019, 6:15pm - 11:59pm

Title: K-Nearest Neighbor Approximation Via the Friend-of-a-Friend Principle

Speaker: Richard W.R. Darling, Math Research Group, NSA
Date and time: Thursday, October 24, 2:15–3:15pm
Place: Phillips 110

Combinatorics Seminar-Equations for Matroid Varieties

Thursday, 10/17/2019, 6:15pm - 11:59pm

Title: Equations for Matroid Varieties
Speaker: Will Traves, USNA
Date and time: Thursday, October 17, 2:15–3:15pm
Place: Phillips 110

University Seminar: Logic Across Disciplines-Markov properties

Friday, 10/11/2019, 3:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: Markov properties
Speaker: Iva Bilanovic, GWU
Date and time: Friday, October 11, 11:00am-12 noon
Place: Phillips Hall (801 22nd Street), Room 736

Combinatorics Seminar- Divided symmetrization and Schubert polynomials

Thursday, 10/10/2019, 6:15pm - 11:59pm

Title: Divided symmetrization and Schubert polynomials

Speaker: Vasu Tewari, UPenn
Date and time: Thursday, October 10, 2:15–3:15pm
Place: Phillips 110

Abstract: The procedure of divided symmetrization was introduced by A. Postnikov in the context of computing volume polynomials of various classes of permutahedra. This procedure takes a multivariate polynomial as input and outputs a scalar, which in many cases is a combinatorially interesting quantity.

Applied Mathematics Seminar-Periodic Minimizers of a Ternary Non-Local Isoperimetric Problem

Tuesday, 10/8/2019, 7:30pm - 11:59pm

Title: Periodic Minimizers of a Ternary Non-Local Isoperimetric Problem
Speaker:Chong Wang
Affiliation: McMaster University
Date and Time:Tuesday, October 8, 3:30pm-4:30pm
Place: Phillips 730

University Seminar: Logic Across Disciplines-Motivating and characterizing large cardinals

Friday, 10/4/2019, 3:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: Motivating and characterizing large cardinals
Speaker: Philip White, GWU
Date and time: Friday, October 4, 11:00am-12 noon
Place: Phillips Hall (801 22nd Street), Room 736

Combinatorics- Multiple Zeta Values, Iterated Integrals, and Labeled Posets

Thursday, 10/3/2019, 6:15pm - 11:59pm

Title: Multiple Zeta Values, Iterated Integrals, and Labeled Posets
Speaker: Michael Hoffman, USNA
Date and time: Thursday, October 3, 2:15–3:15pm
Place: Phillips 110

Uninversity Seminar: Logic Across Disciplines - Forcing, an introduction

Friday, 9/27/2019, 3:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: Forcing, an introduction
Speaker: Philip White, GWU
Date and time: Friday, September 27, 11:00am-12 noon
Place: Phillips Hall (801 22nd Street), Room 736

Combinatorics Seminar-Doubly weighted rooted trees and computer networks

Thursday, 9/26/2019, 6:15pm - 11:59pm

Title: Doubly weighted rooted trees and computer networks
Speaker: Geir Agnarsson, George Mason
Date and time: Thursday, September 26, 2:15–3:15pm