Past talks
Fall Semester 2025
September 05, 14:15, B459: Louis Theran, St Andrews - Algebraic matroids of secant varieties
October 03, 14:15, B459; Rodolfo Ríos-Zertuche, UiT - Relaxation gaps in the sub-Riemannian setting
Summer 2025
August 11, 13:00, B284: Hadleigh Frost, IAS Princeton - Matroid Cosmology: A Tale of Two Posets
August 11, 14:30, B284: Bernd Sturmfels, MPI MiS - The Two Lives of the Grassmannian
August 12, 13:00, B284: Ettore Turatti, UiT - Terracini loci of Veronese varieties
August 12, 14:30, B284: Anaëlle Pfister, MPI MiS - Canonical forms for non-compact hyperplane arrangement
August 19, 15:15 - B485: Thomas Kahle, Magdeburg - Finding short polynomials
Summer Semester 2025
January 16, 14:00, B281: Kris Shaw, UiO - Chomologically tropical varieties
January 31, 10:30, B459: Ettore Turatti, UT - Identifiability of Sums of Squares
February 14, 10:30, B459: Glen Wilson, UiT - What is an infinity-category?
Feburary 28, 10:30, B459: Henri Breloer, UiT - Intersection theory of algebraic surfaces and the Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yao inequality
March 7, 10:30, B459: Örs Rebák, UiT - Special values of Ramanujan's theta function $\varphi(q)$
March 14, 10:30, B459: Joe Cummings, University of Notre Dame - Smooth connectivity in real algebraic varieties
March 21, 10:30, B459: Duy Ho, UiT - Ovoids in the cyclic presentation of PG(3,q)
April 25, 10:30, B459: Cordian Riener, UiT - Symmetries on polynomial ideals and their asymptotic geometry
May 9, 10:30, B459: Dennis The, UiT - Kostant's theorem and geometric applications
May 16, 10:30, B459: Luca Wellmeier, UiT - An algorithm for finding the finest block-diagonalization of SDPs
July 15, 13:15, B459: Daniel Bernstein, Tulane University - Rigidity, matrix completion, tropical geometry and algebraic matroids
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