Meetings: Fridays 4-5:30pm, 746 Evans Hall.
This is a student reading group for topics not far from the convex hull of: the analytic theory of polynomials, spectral graph theory, discrete probability, combinatorics, algorithms, and random matrices.Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 1/26 | Archit | Rothvoss's Proof of CC bounded by square root of rank |
| 2/2 | Jonathan | Generalizations of capacity and applications to counting |
| 2/9 | Jorge, 5-630pm | Fock spaces, orthogonal polynomials, and spectral graph theory |
| 2/16 | Theo | Log-sobolev inequalities on decomposable Markov chains |
| 2/23 | Archit | Bordenave's proof of Friedman's Theorem I |
| 3/2 | Archit/Satyaki | Bordenave's proof of Friedman's Theorem II |
| 3/9 | Satyaki | Bordenave's proof of Friedman's Theorem III |
| 3/16 | Jess | Entanglement Testing via SOS and Lovett's Theorem |
| 4/6 | Nick | q-Finite Free Convolutions of Polynomials |
| 4/27 | Jorge | Polynomial convolutions in the max-plus algebra |