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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Date:
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Location:
POT 745
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dave Jensen

Title:  Matroids in Algebra and Geometry

Abstract:  Matroids are combinatorial structures that generalize the notion of independence in linear algebra and graph theory.  Rota conjectured that certain invariants of a matroid should always form a log concave sequence.  We will report on recent work of Adripasato, Huh, and Katz, in which they use techniques from algebra and geometry to prove Rota's Conjecture.