Meetings: Fridays 12:30-2pm, 736 Evans Hall.
This is a student reading group for topics not far from the convex hull of: analysis related to polynomials, spectral graph theory, discrete probability, combinatorics, algorithms, and random matrices.Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 9/6 | Theo | sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials I paper |
| 9/13 | Theo | sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials II paper |
| 9/20 | Sidhanth | invariance principles I |
| 9/27 | Sidhanth | invariance principles II |
| 10/4 | Jorge | The Schur class, finite Blaschke products and the Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation theorem |
| 10/18 | Jess | Numerical Range, Mapping Theorems, and Blaschke Products |
| 10/25 | Jess | Numerical Range, Spectral Sets, and Crouzeix's Conjecture |
| 11/14 | Tarun | Matrix Concentration for Logconcave Measures |